Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
>
> Backing up people from DNA samples isn't enough - what use is a lot
> of clones? If I could, I think archiving mindstates continously
> would be a good thing, but it is not obvious at all when to
> "resurrect" individuals and from what point in their mindstate. It
> also has the same problem as the Matrix idea: what about their own
> personal integrity? I don't believe that I have the right to anybody
> else's mental state, and definitely no right to play around with
> them (other than through the standard channels of communications).
I was suggesting playing around with them. What I was suggesting
is keeping a bit of a safety net through up to the second (or as
cloase or better as possible) backups. The decision of whether
or not to be brought back and in what matter still should be up
to the sentient. Giving good enough tech it would be possible in
theory to ask them in the "in between lives or potential lives"
state by running the backup virtually and seeing what they wish
next. Question though: Is the wish to terminate oneself made
with an ailing mind actually always to be honored or is it best
to heal the mind first? This gets into all matter of sticky
issues.
>
> If I was a posthuman superintelligence, I would do what I could to
> encourage constructive behavior among other people. That might
> include offering rewards for rational behavior and disincentives for
> irrational behavior. But I don't think I would be morally entitled
> to use force or directly hack them even if I was Omega itself.
>
I think it is fine to give them a choice of trying again or not.
- samantha
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