From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 12:39:08 MST
gts wrote:
> 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.
### If it's free, I'll take it. Otherwise, all I need for my own
satisfaction is the amount of similarity I mentioned.
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>
> 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.
### 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. 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.
Sorry, I don't share your premises. "Your backup is whatever you desire,
sir".
Rafal
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