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Some care about that, others don't.

The eternal dark that I can't experience doesn't scare me, but I'd still like to have a backup — or at least, I did, then I started seriously considering what else can be done with those backups besides restoring from them…

I probably still would, but I'm much less optimistic about people than I used to be.



A backup of what? And why do you want a copy of yourself? To what purpose?

And yeah, wait for someone to create 1,000 instances of you to do whatever they want with.


Backup of my brain. Lost two relatives to Alzheimer's, seems plausible that I might benefit from a freshly printed brain in 30 years, even if the scan, reprinting, and transplant are all done on the same day under general anaesthetic.

(Today such a thing is totally implausible; perhaps it still will be in 30 years, but I'll only find out by living until then).

I'm sure from your previous comment that you don't see that as a continuation of self, but I do see it as such.

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