Comment on Best shot at immortality?

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:44:02 GMT

Unless something weird happens, e.g. a currently-hidden AI keeps us from gobbling the stars, then an FAI once unleashed should be able to revive every human who's ever died, so even if you die before it's developed you should still be okay.

There seems to be rather a lot of information lost beyond the chance of recovery. The mapping of 'current world as best as the FAI could plausibly deconstruct' to 'possible histories that would lead to this state' is not 1:1.

The best I could expect of an FAI is the ability to construct a probability distribution over all the likely combinations of humans who could have lived and perhaps 'resurrect' rather a lot of people who never lived on the hope that it'd get most the ones who did live in the process.

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