Memories are very important, but they’re only part of the package. Personality matters as much or more. I think the right answer would be to kill yourself once the degradation has erased most of your memories but your personality is still mostly untouched.
If you are revived, a lot of memories can be created out of all your documented evidence and buried (but nano-accessible) memories; this is especially true if you were smart enough to start lifelogging early—then you can retrieve a great many memories just by replaying the video stream and crosschecking your reactions against the videoed reactions and documentation like emails or social network updates.
This would represent a tradeoff between the ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ simulation strategies, but that makes sense, since deciding when to kill yourself with Alzheimer’s is another tradeoff between highly certain life and highly uncertain revival.
Memories are very important, but they’re only part of the package. Personality matters as much or more. I think the right answer would be to kill yourself once the degradation has erased most of your memories but your personality is still mostly untouched.
If you are revived, a lot of memories can be created out of all your documented evidence and buried (but nano-accessible) memories; this is especially true if you were smart enough to start lifelogging early—then you can retrieve a great many memories just by replaying the video stream and crosschecking your reactions against the videoed reactions and documentation like emails or social network updates.
This would represent a tradeoff between the ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ simulation strategies, but that makes sense, since deciding when to kill yourself with Alzheimer’s is another tradeoff between highly certain life and highly uncertain revival.
What are those?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/2vv/lifelogging_the_recording_device/2swr