Re: Defining Death: wills & estates

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 08:22:26 MDT


altamira wrote:
>
> So what are people these days doing to make sure they're not paupers when
> they're resuscitated?

Insofar as these things are decided by the programmer (as opposed to the
Sysop or the Consensus of Citizens), I would vote to treat any
resurrectees as pre-existing sentients entitled to their six-billionth
of the Solar System's resources, just as if they'd been alive during the
Singularity.

See, you've got nothing to worry about.

-- 
        sentience@pobox.com    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
              http://singinst.org/beyond.html



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