From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 23:21:03 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### Most people keep their demented parents around even if the amount of
> retained cognitive function is less than 50% (as measured by
> neuropsychological testing, or by activities of daily life).
Sure, but in this case we're talking about backups, not demented parents.
100% accurate continuous backups are available. On special this week: buy
one month of continuous backups, get one month free. It's a deal to die for.
Regarding your other message ("duck me was: SHRDLU") you misunderstand my
position or perhaps haven't been reading my messages to Lee. I consider
instantaneous destructive teleportation as possibly feasible, at least in
theory, and I consider the restoration of backups equivalent to instant
destructive teleportation if the backup is kept current to one unit of
planck time. It would require a remote backup technology capable of
duplicating macroscopic objects faster than light, perhaps through some
highly advanced exploitation of quantum phase entanglement. (I don't see how
the decoherence problem could be solved, but if that problem could be solved
then we might be in business.)
The problems I see occur only when there is a delay between the last backup
and backup restoration, as in my US Senator paradox. In that case we end up
with separate experiences and separate personalities.
-gts
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