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60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 03 December 2012 12:29:08AM *  13 points [-]

Why?

Upload yourself to a computer. You've got a copy on the computer, you've got a physical body. Kill the physical body a few milliseconds after upload.

Repeat, except now kill the physical body a few milliseconds before the upload.

Do you mean to define the former situation as involving a "Death" because a few milliseconds worth of computations were lost, but the latter situation as simple a transfer?

I don't think the word "death" really applies anymore when we are talking at the level of physical systems, any more than "table" or "chair" would. Those constructs don't cross over well into (real or imaginary) physics.