From: Spike (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 11:53:49 MDT
Wei Dai:
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:45:39PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> True. But wouldn't the best way to do this be to
> construct a universe in which thinking more is
> easier and find a way to transport oneself to it?
NO! I live my life as tho there is no magic physics to
be discovered, such as creating a new universe
on the desktop. It is a real possibility that we know
most of physics now, at least on the large scale. This
is a sad possibility, but one which must be faced.
Wei Dei: Once you construct a new universe and copy yourself into it,
why >would you then delete the original in the old universe?
Heck, I would have a hard time destroying just Robert's
name tag, even after I have already emailed him a
digital replica with all the information of the original,
and posting the nametag on a public forum, thus making
innumerable digital copies of the original. You can be
sure I would want to take good care of the original guy,
regardless of how many alternate universes he managed
to create and copy himself into.
spike
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