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Comment author: FeepingCreature 31 January 2012 08:13:12PM *  -1 points [-]
  • Personal identity changing over time counts as death.

This is true but becomes a non-issue as soon as post-scarce computational resources and brain backups are available (while true; do sleep 1y; instantiate backup_01.mind &; done). The correct response is "go for cryonics as soon as possible".

Comment author: MixedNuts 31 January 2012 08:20:17PM 1 point [-]

Assuming that personality divergence is slow enough for that, so that each restore doesn't kill you - is anterograde amnesia the only alternative to death? That would suck.

Comment author: FeepingCreature 31 January 2012 08:53:19PM *  2 points [-]

It's a fork, not a restore. The point is to make sure that there's never a time where all me's have, say, chosen to suicide. It's insurance against divergence.