Considering the hypothesis that men are more likely to have fringe beliefs than women, and that rationality is a fringe belief, what if my female equivalent is not a rationalist? What if instead of reverting her mind back after the experiment, she decides to e.g. change her mind to be religious, because she will value social conformity highly? Those are scary thoughts...
Makes for some great transhumanist ethics thought experiments. Would it be ethical to try out changing your values, with some mechanism that forces you to change back, even if you with those new values would be opposed to changing back and want to keep them?
And remember: on-site backups are not backups. Even if you are working on a git repo, it is surprisingly easy to screw up your commit history so badly you have to burn it all down and start over, and that is not by far the worst possible disaster.
Makes for some great transhumanist ethics thought experiments. Would it be ethical to try out changing your values, with some mechanism that forces you to change back, even if you with those new values would be opposed to changing back and want to keep them?
Always back up the current version and work on a copy instead.
And remember: on-site backups are not backups. Even if you are working on a git repo, it is surprisingly easy to screw up your commit history so badly you have to burn it all down and start over, and that is not by far the worst possible disaster.