Interesting Links for 11-02-2018
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andrewducker- Mayfair Games, the company that helped lead a revolution in board games is shutting down
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- Norway’s Olympic Team Bought 15,000 Eggs Due to a Google Translate Mistake
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- When will the world reach 'peak child'?
- Obviously the best one will be born in about two months
(tags: children demographics thefuture education africa ) - Terrifying British Study Shows Trump Supporters Are Now Basically Unreachable
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- Tiger Cub Found In Box Sent Via Courier. It Was Saved By A Sniffer Dog
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- Cryonics Myths
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- More details on Mayfair Games being bought out
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- 'Soft’ UV lights in public spaces could stop flu spreading without harming humans
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- Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
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- Blind bisexual goose stuck in love triangle with two swans dies aged 40
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- I bought this backpack, and it's awesome for travelling with. Totally recommended
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- Cadburys to remove ‘Easter’ from Easter eggs to avoid causing offence
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- What Scientists Learned From Putting 3-D Glasses on Praying Mantises
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- Barlow's principles of adult behaviour
- I don't believe in sticking to these if the other person repeatedly acts in bad faith. But most of the time they're a good starting point.
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Date: 2018-02-12 03:28 am (UTC)Or, why would future people unfreeze us, randos from the 21st century who could almost certainly not cope optimally because of future shock? I believe it's a commonplace in the cryonics community that if recovery from death will happen, those who have died most recently will get priority, for both technical, psychological and political reasons - e.g. they still have living next of kin who wish them back.
But by far the greatest problem for me is the problem of continuity of experience, which is inherently subjective and ridiculously difficult to adjudicate. It's the teleporter problem: how can we distinguish (1) I was teleported / I was frozen and reborn from (2) I died, and a perfect copy of me was made?
(Obviously if you ask the copy, they'll say that they remember everything that happened before they were frozen; but that doesn't mean that they're actually me. Most obviously, if you accidentally make two copies, at least one of them must be wrong; so why give benefit of the doubt to the other?)
Because if I can have my head frozen when I die and there's even an infinitesimal chance that I'll get better, then per Pascal's wager, I'd be an idiot not to give it a go. But what interest do I have of a clone of me being born for some future society's entertainment? Even if I were hubristic enough to think that it would be worth saving me for future generations, it'll be an impersonator reaping all of the glory.