From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 12:04:23 MST
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, gts wrote:
> I think you should think of them first. After all your personal
> opinion won't matter much when you're pushing up daisies.
Relatives and lovers are a different market, but 50-60% sure beats 0%.
They will not notice a difference between you and your former you with a
few ks missing, unless they shared the experience with you.
Your backup from a day ago which got reactivated after your demise is not
that you you who shuffled off the mortal coil under much screaming. Otoh,
imagine your life started just a few minutes ago, because you happen to be
the instantiated backup. Aren't you feeling grateful? Won't you like to
return the favour to a snapshot of your former self, should similiar
mishap happen to you? And think of people close to you. Now it would be
awfully mean of you to deprive them of a loved person, wouldn't it?
Besides, you can keep incremental remote backups which are up to date
within your specific chronon, assuming your instance was running. That
backup is most assuredly you.
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