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How can we solve the "heap paradox"?
Even if we assume that if you have access to all information about a person's every molecule and every signal in their brain allows you to resurrect the same person instead of creating a new person with the same memories (an assumption not everyone agrees with), where can we draw the threshold between resurrecting the person and creating a new person with some passing resemblance, if the amount of information becomes smaller and smaller? When does it stop being the same person and when can we speak about a completely different person with only a few similarities to the deceased one?
We could solve it if we move from binary idea of identity, which only can be 0 or 1, me or not me, to continuous idea of identity, which could have many gradation. In this case we should ask how similar the copy will be to the original or what is the probability that I find my self in the next moment to be that copy. The main problems with identity is that it is wrong notion. It assumes that set of all possible observer is divided on many subset of observers, which are identical inside that subsets. But the idea identity is only useful to answer questions like "what I will feel in next moment". Most such question could be answered without binary conception of identity. Any way I suggest ti stick for now to conservative approach to identity problem - see comment above.
In case of DI, we should collect as much information as possible.
The evidence provided of any dead person produces a distribution on human brains, given enough computation. The more evidence there is, the more focused the distribution. Given post-scarcity, the FAI could simply produce many samples on each distribution.
This is certainly a clever way of producing mind-neighbors. I find problems with these sorts of schemes for resurrection, though. Socioeconomic privilege, tragedy of the commons, and data rot, to be precise.
It could be solved by acasual trading between parallel worlds. I tried to explain it in the map under the title that DI stalks well with many world immortality.
If we have infinitely many worlds with the same evidence about the person ( but the person is different in different world, only the evidence is the same), we could create only one resurrection in each world which is in agreement with this evidence, AND it will be exact resurrection of the person from another world.
BUT, the person from this world will be exact resurrected in the another world, so each person will have exact resurrection in some world, and each world will have only one person which much its evidence. (So, no problems with ethics and resources.)
I think that it may be difficult to explain this in several lines, but I hope you grasp the idea. If it is not clear I could try better explanation.
No, that's easy to grasp. I just wonder what the point is. Conservation of resources?
If we don't know 100 bits of information, we need to create 2 power 100 copies to fill all gaps. Even for FAI it may be difficult. Also it may be unpleasant to the copies themselves, as it would delude their value to outside world.
What's wrong with gaps? This is probabilistic in the first place.
If a gap is about very important feature or a secret event, it could be two completely different people. Like if we don't know if a person of interest was a gay.
...Okay? One in ten sampled individuals will be gay. You can do that. Does it really matter when you're resurrecting the dead?
Your own proposal is to only sample one, and call the inaccuracy "acausal trade," which isn't even necessary in this case. The AI is missing 100 bits. You're already admitting many-worlds. So the AI can simply draw those 100 bits out of quantum randomness, and in each Everett branch, there will be a different individual. The incorrect ones you could call "acausal travelers," even though you're just wrong. There will still be the "correct" individual, the exact descendant of this reality's instance, in one of the Everett branches. The fact that it is "correct" doesn't even matter, there is only ever "close enough," but the "correct" one is there.
I think that there is 3 option in case of incomplete information.
I suggest to choose variant 2. In this case everybody is happy. The subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes. Each universe get a person which corresponds its conditions and do not get useless semi-copies of the subject.
I think that there is 3 option in case of incomplete information.
I suggest to choose variant 2. In this case everybody is happy. The subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes. Each universe get a person which corresponds its conditions and do not get useless semi-copies of the subject.