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Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 15 July 2015 04:36:17AM *  0 points [-]

use the copier to create a copy of myself, and as the copy I could do the household chores then self destruct to free up resources without worrying about my 'self' dying.

I wouldn't do it in the first place, since there's a fifty percent chance of me winding up doomed. But if the copy is already created than no, it would not be me dying.

use the copier to create a copy of myself, then as the original go do the chores/self destruct without worrying about my 'self' dying.

That is absolutely dying.

if there was a resource conflict which required the destruction of a copy, I could decide that I was the 'least important' copy and self terminate without worrying about my 'self' dying.

Same thing for this.

Comment author: Dentin 15 July 2015 03:28:27PM 1 point [-]

That's what I figured. If anything, I'd say that this is your core issue, not dust theory. Your sense of subjective self just doesn't map well onto what it's actually possible to do, so of course you're going to get garbage results from time to time.

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