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The Digital Future of Grief

Hi-Phi Nation

CHAPTER

The Importance of Backups

What's important is not the brain or body, but the information itself. This is a view articulated most prominently in 1984 by philosopher Derek Parfett. It makes people less like the Mona Lisa and more like a copyable file. Anything who's survival doesn't depend on a particular thing existing in the world. And its mortality is why we need AIs if we want our loved ones to survive.

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