On Feb 2, 7:07 am, Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
Jack is talking about copies in the common sense of initially physically
identical beings who however occupy different places in the same spacetime
and hence have
On 2 February 2010 18:07, Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
if there were a million copies of me in lockstep and all but one were
destroyed, then each of the million copies would feel that they had
continuity of
--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
Jack is talking about copies in the common sense of initially physically
identical beings who however occupy different places in the same spacetime
and hence have different viewpoints and experiences.
No, that's incorrect. I
Jack Mallah wrote:
--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
Jack is talking about copies in the common sense of initially physically
identical beings who however occupy different places in the same spacetime and
hence have different viewpoints and experiences.
Le 26-janv.-10, à 22:29, Jack Mallah a écrit :
--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 25 Jan 2010, at 23:16, Jack Mallah wrote:
Killing one man is not OK just because he has a brother.
In our context, the 'brother' has the same consciousness.
The brother most
2010/1/27 Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com:
See above. That would be a measure-conserving process, so it would be OK.
I would be upset at the prospect of someone killing me even if they
filled the world with angelic beings by way of atonement, because it
would not feel as if any of them were
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
2010/1/27 Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com:
See above. That would be a measure-conserving process, so it would be OK.
I would be upset at the prospect of someone killing me even if they
filled the world with angelic beings by way of atonement, because it
On 28 January 2010 05:31, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
If I understand you correctly, your discussion of copies really refers to
copies that exist in different identical worlds, e.g. like different copies
of the same AI running in identical virtual environments, so that they can
Jack,
What you mentioned ending the existence of a suffering copy can be positive.
I am curious, would you consider ending any observer whose quality of life
was less than the average weighted (by number of copies) quality of life of
all observers everywhere? Consider this example:
On 25 Jan 2010, at 23:16, Jack Mallah wrote:
Killing one man is not OK just because he has a brother.
In our context, the 'brother' has the same consciousness. From this I
conclude you would say no to the doctor. All right? The doctor
certainly kill a 'brother' .
Bruno Marchal
--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 25 Jan 2010, at 23:16, Jack Mallah wrote:
Killing one man is not OK just because he has a brother.
In our context, the 'brother' has the same consciousness.
The brother most certainly does not have the same consciousness. If he
Thank you Jack for your response.
That one that is killed doesn't feel anything after he is killed. The one
that lives experiences whatever he would have experienced anyway. There is NO
TRANSFER of consciousness. Killing a guy (assuming he is not an evil guy or
in great pain) and not
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