From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 14:04:41 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>> 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.
>
> ### If it's free, I'll take it.
Good, at least we agree on this much: constant backups are better than
lagged backups.
>> 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.
>
> ### No, I didn't misunderstand anything. If you have a backup
> that lags by one unit of time (assuming that time is quantized,
etc.etc.),
> it's no longer your backup, merely a twin brother, by your own
definition.
Right, this is why I think we would need to make constant backups, made
in each interval of planck time, such that the backup is perpetually in
the same quantum state as the original. Under such conditions I think a
continuation of self may be possible. Certainly the restored backup
would at least have the same personality as the original at time of
death.
> So you in effect ask "If my backup is no longer my backup, is it a
backup?"
> You include your desired answer in your premises and demand others to
accept the whole
> package.
No, see above.
-gts
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