From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 18:04:22 MST
Eliezer writes
> Lee Corbin wrote:
> > [Damien Broderick wrote]
> > > Many extropians are only too happy to terminate a xox, or get rid of
> > > a `meat' body, once the magic dust has been ported into a computer.
>
> I can't ever recall having heard this advocated.
Well, I certainly have, and it looks like Damien has too.
> > Look, *after* you've uploaded, think carefully about what you are
> > about to do when you terminate your million-times slower biological
> > self. *Why* do it???
>
> You're supposed to MOVE from point A to point B, not COPY yourself from
> point A to point B.
What the hell is the difference? (Except that copying is non-
destructive, whereas moving is.) Ever happen to notice what
happens to the original bits when you move a file to another
drive?
> I don't think I've ever heard someone proposing to
> terminate "their" unsynchronized meaty self.
In these kinds of scenarios, people ordinarily suppose
that as soon as they've "moved" to their more advanced
form, they'd no longer exist in the old carcass. (I
guess they think that someone else is still there.)
So it seems perfectly natural to them to stop
supporting the old device.
Lee
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