One question worth thinking about is how much you value your specific martial arts and massage experience, vs. some other experience in a similar space.
That is, if you lost all of that stuff upon being rebooted, but I installed off-the-shelf martial arts and massage modules that were not quite identical, how much would you care?
By way of comparison—I would care a lot if this were done for, say, my memories of or feelings about my marriage, my birth family, my social circle, my abstract thoughts about life, my stroke and recovery. If you told me that on reboot you’d replace those with some standard package of family relations, social history, etc., I’d look for another vendor… though, admittedly, I’d still choose that over simple oblivion.
I would care significantly less, though still quite a bit, if it were done for my memories of work or school. A standard memory package set to “successful computer industy knowledge worker, mediocre MIT student, smartest kid in a suburban high school, etc.” is something I would tolerate, though still be sort of twitchy about… probably more due to chagrin at being forced to face my non-special-snowflakeness than anything else.
But if you replaced my memories of living in this body with a standard package configured for “male, average health, marginally below-average fitness, male pattern baldness onset mid-20s, etc.” I doubt I would even notice the difference.
One question worth thinking about is how much you value your specific martial arts and massage experience, vs. some other experience in a similar space.
That is, if you lost all of that stuff upon being rebooted, but I installed off-the-shelf martial arts and massage modules that were not quite identical, how much would you care?
By way of comparison—I would care a lot if this were done for, say, my memories of or feelings about my marriage, my birth family, my social circle, my abstract thoughts about life, my stroke and recovery. If you told me that on reboot you’d replace those with some standard package of family relations, social history, etc., I’d look for another vendor… though, admittedly, I’d still choose that over simple oblivion.
I would care significantly less, though still quite a bit, if it were done for my memories of work or school. A standard memory package set to “successful computer industy knowledge worker, mediocre MIT student, smartest kid in a suburban high school, etc.” is something I would tolerate, though still be sort of twitchy about… probably more due to chagrin at being forced to face my non-special-snowflakeness than anything else.
But if you replaced my memories of living in this body with a standard package configured for “male, average health, marginally below-average fitness, male pattern baldness onset mid-20s, etc.” I doubt I would even notice the difference.