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Comment author: jacob_cannell 29 October 2015 06:15:15PM 1 point [-]

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.

Other friends/family/descendants - as well as society in general - is unlikely to want these changes.

I would venture a guess that people rarely care about accurate versions of dead people, they would prefer improved ones.

People alive today will want accurate versions of themselves to exist in the future. Society/future FAI will also consider this.

All in all, this just looks like a silicone version of ancestor worship.

Avoid naive pattern matching.

Comment author: Lumifer 29 October 2015 06:18:22PM *  -2 points [-]

Other friends/family/descendants - as well as society in general - is unlikely to want these changes

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?

Avoid naive pattern matching.

Oh, I do, I do :-) I pick insightful pattern matching instead.

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