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

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Comment author: moridinamael 08 January 2016 07:56:56PM 0 points [-]

Destroying an elderly person means destroying the line of their existence and extinguishing all their memories. Destroying a copy means destroying whatever memories it formed since forking and ending a "duplicate" consciousness.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 January 2016 10:45:01PM 0 points [-]

See you think that memories are somehow relevant to this conversation. I don't.

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