On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 at 4:44 pm, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > >> Asking about your expectations is an attempt to show what your implicit >> beliefs about your future are. >> > > OK, If you say "What one and only one city do you expect to > see > > after you walk into the > > that "you" duplicating machine?" I would remain silent because it is not > my habit to respond to any old string of words, not even if the string of > words are placed in a > > grammatically correct order, not even if there is a question mark at the > end of > that > > string. I can't give a answer if I don't know the question and I don't. > > > >> if you are duplicated in Washington and Moscow would you like your assets >> to be distributed 50/50 to the copies >> > > That would depend on my personal > idiosyncrasies > and also > on how rich I was, if I was only living at the subsistence level I'd want > all my assets to go to only one of the copies, it doesn't matter which one, > because that way at least one of them would survive; if I were a > billionaire I might prefer a different arrangement, and you might like > something else entirely. Who cares? There is no disputing matters of taste. > I thought we were interested in grand philosophical ideas and the nature > of reality not the trivial likes and dislikes of individuals. > It seems that you would want your assets distributed to the copies, ideally both of them, if not both then one, randomly chosen (“it doesn’t matter which one”). That’s what someone would do if they expected to survive the copying process. > -- 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.
