On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 at 12:08 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Your beliefs about your future are demonstrated by your decisions and >> behaviour, >> > > > Absolutely true. > > By the way, the short sentence quoted above contains just 12 words, but 3 > of them are personal pronouns. That's 25%. People just use them > unconsciously without thinking about what they really mean, and that causes > few problems in everyday life but fails utterly if personal pronoun > duplicating machines are involved. > > > >> despite what you may say about pronouns. >> > > Also true, and what John Clark says is that John Clark doesn't > give a damn about what happens to words like "me" or "I" or any other > personal pronoun, however John Clark cares very much about what happens to > the conscious being that is typing these words right now. > > >> > >> If you go through a 1->1 duplication would you make provisions for the >> copy? >> > > Explain what the difference is between a future "you" and a future > "copy" and John Clark will provide a answer to that question, in the future > of course. > > > I know that, barring disaster, tomorrow there will be a person with the general attributes, memories, and so on of the person writing this sentence. Because of the nature of human psychology, I consider that that person will be "me", the same person as I am now, projected into the future, and so selfishly make provisions for him: make sure there is milk in the fridge, lock the door so no-one breaks in, avoid spending all the money in my bank account. If I knew I was going to be duplicated so that tomorrow there would be two versions of me in different cities, then I (the person writing this now) would behave as if there were a 1/2 probability that I would end up in one or other city. If I knew I would be duplicated 1000 times in city A and once in city B, I (the person writing this now) would behave as if I were 1000 times more likely to end up in A than B, and make plans accordingly. What would you (the person reading this now) do under these circumstances? > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
