Personal identity changing over time counts as death.
This is true but becomes a non-issue as soon as post-scarce computational resources and brain backups are available (while true; do sleep 1y; instantiate backup_01.mind &; done). The correct response is “go for cryonics as soon as possible”.
Assuming that personality divergence is slow enough for that, so that each restore doesn’t kill you—is anterograde amnesia the only alternative to death? That would suck.
It’s a fork, not a restore. The point is to make sure that there’s never a time where all me’s have, say, chosen to suicide. It’s insurance against divergence.
This is true but becomes a non-issue as soon as post-scarce computational resources and brain backups are available (
while true; do sleep 1y; instantiate backup_01.mind &; done
). The correct response is “go for cryonics as soon as possible”.Assuming that personality divergence is slow enough for that, so that each restore doesn’t kill you—is anterograde amnesia the only alternative to death? That would suck.
It’s a fork, not a restore. The point is to make sure that there’s never a time where all me’s have, say, chosen to suicide. It’s insurance against divergence.