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Tem42 comments on Instrumental Rationality Questions Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: AspiringRationalist 22 August 2015 08:25PM

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Comment author: estimator 24 August 2015 06:57:10AM 1 point [-]

I'm very skeptical of the third. A human brain contains ~10^10 neurons and ~10^14 synapses -- which would be hard to infer from ~10^5 photos/screenshots, esp. considering that they don't convey that much information about your brain structure. DNA and comprehensive brain scans are better, but I guess that getting brain scans with required precision isn't quite easy.

Cryonics, at least, might work.

Comment author: Tem42 24 August 2015 05:43:09PM 1 point [-]

DNA and brain scans are far from perfect -- you will only get someone "you-ish". In the absence of a solution, you can at least get a bit more you-ness cheaply when the opportunity presents itself. A sufficiently powerful simulation could take all the possible yous indicated by DNA and scans, and see which yous are consistent with the sequences you have saved through screen shots and ect.

It's not perfect, but it should be a little bit better.

Even better would be if you did something more complex and less externally guided than web-browsing... write a book, a blog, or a song. Also, save your LessWrong username in that file!