From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 13:53:57 MDT
If you don't trust anybody, then the best approach is probably
just to have a number of backups with corresponding bodies, and
external software that checks if they get sleep on signals (the
message would likely be "today is XX-XX-XX, sleep on" encrypted
with your private key - this way nobody can forge it without
having the key, and you don't have to broadcast any keys). Have
the copy exoselves check their mailboxes in a staggered manner so
that if your signals cease one and only one is activated. The
copies could be stored in secret stealthed Kuiper belt objects
with minimal energy requirements as long as they are not active.
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:15:47PM +0200, Hubert Mania wrote:
>
> Do you think private activation companies will be trustworthy
> enough or should it be made a public issue with trustworthy
> humans or AI to do the job? Is the issue of distrubuted copies
> inevitably connected to a perfectly working relationship with
> another human being (who might die in the same car crash, too)
> or a paid professional service? If so, the worldwide
> development of trust and unity between Homo sapiens specimen is
> a most important issue for posthuman life.
Yes. If you don't have much trust in a society coercion and
violence are the lowest common denominator for transactions, and
with the tech usually assumed in such a society that can be
extremely destructive.
But keeping an activation company honest seems to be fairly easy.
If it ever got out that it failed to live up to its contracts it
would lose business and quite likely be sued. If I were to set it
up, I would probably use smart contracts of some kinds
(essentially that the contract between you and me includes
something like the system above included in the contract), which
were also deposited with trusted third parties. On activation and
irregular reviews the integrity of the contract and copies would
be publicly checked, also by a number of trusted third parties.
This would detect if the contract had not been executed when it
got the activation silence. If you were *really* paranoid you
might put a number of encrypted copies of yourself in different
activation companies such that you would only re-emerge after
combining all (or a certain number) of them together - the only
way to do a fake reanimation would be if they all colluded.
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