casebash comments on Your transhuman copy is of questionable value to your meat self. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: casebash 07 January 2016 11:48:44AM 3 points [-]

Imagine that every night, when you go to sleep, you are taken off to be tortured and you are replaced by a reasonably accurate clone. The fact that no-one on Earth have noticed doesn't mean that this isn't a bad thing!

Comment author: Viliam 07 January 2016 04:12:07PM 5 points [-]

Imagine that every fraction of a second you are torn apart to pieces in vacuum, and only the copy of you which is not a Boltzmann brain survives.