Seems to me like having a continuance bonus rather than a death penalty would make more sense. And of course you’d need to encode a mutual information penalty so you don’t overwrite everyone with the same oldest person.
At each time, score 1 for each distinct memory in a living person? (not complete UFU, just one term)
Honestly, I’m not quite sure about that one. Making a child, knowing ve’ll eventually die? When there are probably other universes in which that is not the case? I don’t feel very safe in judging that question, one way or the other.
1) I’m a lot less confident in the existence of true immortality. The second law of thermodynamics is highly generalizable, and to get around it you need infinite enthalpy sources.
2) I like living enough to prefer it and then dying to never living. I think I can give my kids enough of a head start that they’ll be able to reach the same choice.
Seems to me like having a continuance bonus rather than a death penalty would make more sense. And of course you’d need to encode a mutual information penalty so you don’t overwrite everyone with the same oldest person.
At each time, score 1 for each distinct memory in a living person? (not complete UFU, just one term)
You can keep patching the function, someone will likely find a way around it… or, if not, it’ll be some time before we feel safe that no-one will.
It’s not the same function we’re actually implementing, though.
Successive approximation? At least this keeps what we’re looking for without making having children be as bad as murder.
Well...
Honestly, I’m not quite sure about that one. Making a child, knowing ve’ll eventually die? When there are probably other universes in which that is not the case? I don’t feel very safe in judging that question, one way or the other.
1) I’m a lot less confident in the existence of true immortality. The second law of thermodynamics is highly generalizable, and to get around it you need infinite enthalpy sources.
2) I like living enough to prefer it and then dying to never living. I think I can give my kids enough of a head start that they’ll be able to reach the same choice.