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5 Post author: lucidfox 20 December 2010 12:14PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 20 December 2010 07:15:08PM *  0 points [-]

It seems unfair to preallocate property among otherwise identical copies of a person, but it's certainly physically possible -- and I can't think of any reason why we'd want to prevent copies from negotiating their own ownership of property once their state vectors have diverged. Seems like a reasonable analogy to the economic side of divorce.

This is a pretty science-fictional aside, though.