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Freezing to (not) death: cryonics and the quest for immortality (with Max Marty)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Care

I think an uncomfortable question for those who believe that the upload that's just based on a scan of their brain really is them is what if they just upload 100 copies of you? What if those copies don't even know about each other? So there's 100 of you going around, like, which one is you in a meaningful sense? Or let's see yourself interested, right? You're totally selfish. And you have to choose 99 of the 100 are going to be tortured. How would you make that choice? There's all kinds of interesting scenarios like that,. I think that the central problem is we did not evolve to really worry about this. We evolved to, when I wake up

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