From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 02:25:55 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> You walk into a room and discover a frozen duplicate
> of you created a few minutes ago. There he is, sprawled
> out in the ice as was the Frankenstein monster. On top
> the cask of ice sits a briefcase containing ten million
> dollars. You must choose between (A) to have your xox
> and the $10M vaporized, or (B) to be vaporized yourself
> with your duplicate getting to be thawed out and sent
> happily on his way to the bank with his new ten million.
>
> Only the most extreme "state-theory" followers, or extreme
> materialists as you would call them, opt for choice B, like
> I do, and as Robin Hanson does. We don't mind losing a few
> minutes' memories, and anticipate going to the bank tomorrow
> and enjoyably depositing all that money.
Some people might be willing to die as long as a different person who is
*almost* exactly like them has $10M with which to follow the same goals.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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