Distributed systems hazard function

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 16:35:46 MST

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    On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:23, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    >

    >
    > No! What uploading is "about" is being able to produce a
    > distributed replicated intelligence as I discussed at Extro3.
    > Without that entities are limited by their hazard function
    > which on average is 2000-7000 years (depending on whose figures
    > you are working with).
    >

    ### I wonder what is the expected survival time of distributed persons
    with multiple (synchronous or asynchronous) copies, and how do define it
    in the first place. Imagine you have 1000 copies, and 100 become
    subverted by an attacker, without depriving them of a subjective sense
    of continuity with the original, but producing significant deviations in
    behavior, so severe that the original would disavow them. Are you 1/10
    dead?

    What if only 1 copy remains, and it has to hide from the 999 who say he
    is an impostor, subverted by a virus? Is that last copy likely to doubt
    its being a genuine one, with all the others insisting it is simply
    defective? If yes, then you would have to believe you might be dead,
    without actually knowing it for sure (the subverted copies are dead as
    far as being your true continuation, and the true copy doubts its
    genuineness).

    What an odious predicament!

    Rafal



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