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DanielLC comments on I want to save myself - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: DanArmak 20 May 2011 10:27AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 21 May 2011 05:11:29AM 0 points [-]

The only thing you could really say is "me" is the current instance of me. The later ones are, for all intents and purposes, other people.

A destructive teleporter can't destroy the current instance of me, since it can't erase the past.

I also note that of the anthropic trilemma, two cause paradoxes, and the other one (no personal identity) just seems counterintuitive to most people.