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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on A rational approach to the issue of permanent death-prevention - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 11 February 2015 08:49:46PM 3 points [-]

Creation and Collection might also be interleaved. You might incrementally create a copy and sync it with your brain.

Actually I have already created four copies with 50% fidelity of hardware and I hope to approach >30% of software fidelity over the next decades for a total of 40% fidelity. These inexact copies jointly approximate my brain to >85% (assuming software fidelity is also independent) which is deeply satisfactory for me. I don't think technology will reach these levels anytime soon (i.e. during my lifetime).

Comment author: imuli 11 February 2015 10:09:06PM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for cuteness.

However, my understanding is that technology has already reached the level of making copies with ~100% of hardware fidelity.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 13 February 2015 09:51:25PM 0 points [-]

We know how to make ~100% copies of software sure, but hardware? I don't think we can do single-material solid copies with an accurracy with much more than µm resolution.

We can 'copy' (clone) a lot of life-forms. So you might mean that kind of hardware copy. I don't know the mutation rate of animal cloning and it is probably good enough to call it ~100% on the DNA-level. But the resulting phenotype often contains errors that make it questionable to call the result a 100% copy.

Comment author: imuli 15 February 2015 01:42:34PM 0 points [-]

I would hazard that cloning comes a lot closer to 100% fidelity than a child comes to 50% fidelity. In any case, one cannot transfer their self to clones or children with our current means - I doubt one can even convey 1%.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 15 February 2015 05:13:29PM 0 points [-]

That entierely depends on how to measure this.