Comment on Timeless Identity

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:18:51 GMT

At one extreme, if I assume those posts are being used to create a me-simulation by me-simulation-creator that literally knows nothing else about humans, then I'm pretty confident that the result is nothing I would identify with. (I'm also pretty sure this scenario is internally inconsistent.)

At another extreme, if I assume the me-simulation-creator has access to a standard template for my general demographic and is just looking to customize that template sufficiently to pick out some subset of the volume of mindspace my sufficiently preserved identity defines... then maybe. I'd have to think a lot harder about what information is in my online posts and what information would plausibly be in such a template to even express a confidence interval about that.

That said, I'm certainly not comfortable treating the result of that process as preserving "me."

Then again I'm also not comfortable treating the result of living a thousand years as preserving "me."

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