The question you should ask is would Feynman have agreed to it?
Because that's the person who will have to put up with it. You can only ask such a question if you're willing to give the future recipient of the gift the option to back out and be sent back to your present state. And if that new individual isn't 'you' in a legal sense you might find that contract nul and void anyway.
> Where it gets really strange is if you think of your wife or husband making a backup of their brain, then running a simulator on that backup.
There is a Black Mirror episode around that called 'Be right back'.
>There is a Black Mirror episode around that called 'Be right back'.
Well, they were approximations based on people's social media presence, and the episode's conflict mainly came from the imperfection of the approximation. I think you get a very different set of cultural conflicts if the simulation is of an accurate copy of the mind (issues more like in the book Permutation City).
Because that's the person who will have to put up with it. You can only ask such a question if you're willing to give the future recipient of the gift the option to back out and be sent back to your present state. And if that new individual isn't 'you' in a legal sense you might find that contract nul and void anyway.
> Where it gets really strange is if you think of your wife or husband making a backup of their brain, then running a simulator on that backup.
There is a Black Mirror episode around that called 'Be right back'.