Lumifer comments on Crazy Ideas Thread - October 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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Oh, boy, that's such a can of worms. Let's resurrect grandpa, except we'll delete some features of him that we don't like and try to forget about. Or let's resurrect my girlfriend from college but let's make her a nympho.
I would venture a guess that people rarely care about accurate versions of dead people, they would prefer improved ones.
All in all, this just looks like a silicon version of ancestor worship. If you venerate your ancestors or, say, if you are a Mormon you convert them the Mormonism, isn't that acausal trade in practice? They begat you, you do things for their souls...
Other friends/family/descendants - as well as society in general - is unlikely to want these changes.
People alive today will want accurate versions of themselves to exist in the future. Society/future FAI will also consider this.
Avoid naive pattern matching.
Really? Is there anyone who would prefer an incontinent grandpa raving about today's degeneracy which the Good Lord will burn out? Or a grandpa who lived to a really advanced stage of Alzheimer's?
Oh, I do, I do :-) I pick insightful pattern matching instead.