I didn’t realize that was you—the user-names are rather different.
This problem is called politics. It remains unsolved.
In the general case, yes; but certain extremely limited subsets do seem amenable to game theory. For example—say that future-me builds and/or buys a bunch of spacefaring spores, capable of carrying my emmed consciousness to other stars (and, upon arrival, can build the infrastructure to build more of them, etc, etc). I’d suggest that ‘personal property’ is a reasonably solved problem, in that few people would argue that the spores’ computers are mine, and I have the right to choose what software runs on them. (There may be some quibbling about what ‘I’ actually means once I start splitting into multiple copies, but I’m already working on how to handle that issue. :) )
If any other ems want to come along, then would it really be such a big issue if I make it clear ahead of time that the spores will remain under my control, and that if the passengers behave in such a way that I deem them a threat to the voyage, I reserve the right to limit their various privileges and accesses to each other, up to and including putting them on ‘pause’ for the remainder of the trip? Or, put another way—that I’m claiming the traditional rights of both owner-aboard and captain of a vessel?
(… And might we gain a few more people contributing to this conversational thread if we started a new topic?)
If any other ems want to come along, then would it really be such a big issue if I make it clear ahead of time that the spores will remain under my control, and that if the passengers behave in such a way that I deem them a threat to the voyage, I reserve the right to limit their various privileges and accesses to each other, up to and including putting them on ‘pause’ for the remainder of the trip? Or, put another way—that I’m claiming the traditional rights of both owner-aboard and captain of a vessel?
I’m sure you would still find people who agree to that.
(… And might we gain a few more people contributing to this conversational thread if we started a new topic?)
Hey, I’ve taken ems copying themselves seriously enough to try to figure out a workable system for them to divvy up their property and debts—and dropped a few details of those into the Orion’s Arm SF setting.
I didn’t realize that was you—the user-names are rather different.
In the general case, yes; but certain extremely limited subsets do seem amenable to game theory. For example—say that future-me builds and/or buys a bunch of spacefaring spores, capable of carrying my emmed consciousness to other stars (and, upon arrival, can build the infrastructure to build more of them, etc, etc). I’d suggest that ‘personal property’ is a reasonably solved problem, in that few people would argue that the spores’ computers are mine, and I have the right to choose what software runs on them. (There may be some quibbling about what ‘I’ actually means once I start splitting into multiple copies, but I’m already working on how to handle that issue. :) )
If any other ems want to come along, then would it really be such a big issue if I make it clear ahead of time that the spores will remain under my control, and that if the passengers behave in such a way that I deem them a threat to the voyage, I reserve the right to limit their various privileges and accesses to each other, up to and including putting them on ‘pause’ for the remainder of the trip? Or, put another way—that I’m claiming the traditional rights of both owner-aboard and captain of a vessel?
(… And might we gain a few more people contributing to this conversational thread if we started a new topic?)
I’m sure you would still find people who agree to that.
You really take this that seriously? I dunno.
Hey, I’ve taken ems copying themselves seriously enough to try to figure out a workable system for them to divvy up their property and debts—and dropped a few details of those into the Orion’s Arm SF setting.