Re: [sl4] Re: Uploads coming first would be good, right?

From: Stuart Armstrong (dragondreaming@googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 03:36:39 MST


>> your extended analogies about copies
>> receiving the same input in symetric rooms.
>> those were clear as mud
>
> If you and the original were facing each other an equal distance from
> the center of a symmetrical room then you two would be receiving
> identical input and thus act identically; and if I switched your
> position no outside observer could tell the difference objectively, and
> you couldn't tell the difference subjectively. So I conclude it makes no
> difference. What's unclear about that?

The fact that it's not true (viz classical chaos or quantum
decoherence) and the fact that that it doesn't make the same point you
were making later.

Stuart



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