From: Robin Hanson (hanson@econ.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 20 1998 - 09:32:08 MDT
"jakob rębild" writes:
>mark@unicorn.com wrote:
>> Scott Badger [wbadger@psyberlink.net] wrote:
>> >My thoughts exactly. Program the copies to self-destruct in 8 (or whatever)
>> >hours
>> Uh, how? The best I could see would be to set a timer which would delete
>> their process after 8 hours, but can you really see yourself working hard
>> when you know that in eight hours you'll die? ...
>mark is right. if the copy is exact, it will not work as planned knowing that it
>will be destroyed, any less than you will blow your own head off during vacation. ...
While I took issue with some other of Joe Jenkins' assumptions, I'm fine with
this one. I'd have no problem ending myself if I recalled agreeing to do so a
few hours ago, with a copy of myself as of that time living on.
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
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