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Slider comments on Your transhuman copy is of questionable value to your meat self. - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Usul 06 January 2016 09:03AM

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Comment author: Slider 08 January 2016 05:47:44AM 0 points [-]

Forking would mean thinning of resources and a lot of unneccesary repetition. You could also calculate the common part only once and only divergent parts once per instance with fusing. Early technologies are probably going to be very resource intensive so its not like there is abundance to use it even if it would be straigth forward to do.

Comment author: moridinamael 08 January 2016 07:48:23PM 0 points [-]

I guess this all depends on what kind of magical assumptions we're making about the tech that would permit this.