If we don’t know 100 bits of information, we need to create 2 power 100 copies to fill all gaps. Even for FAI it may be difficult. Also it may be unpleasant to the copies themselves, as it would delude their value to outside world.
If a gap is about very important feature or a secret event, it could be two completely different people. Like if we don’t know if a person of interest was a gay.
...Okay? One in ten sampled individuals will be gay. You can do that. Does it really matter when you’re resurrecting the dead?
Your own proposal is to only sample one, and call the inaccuracy “acausal trade,” which isn’t even necessary in this case. The AI is missing 100 bits. You’re already admitting many-worlds. So the AI can simply draw those 100 bits out of quantum randomness, and in each Everett branch, there will be a different individual. The incorrect ones you could call “acausal travelers,” even though you’re just wrong. There will still be the “correct” individual, the exact descendant of this reality’s instance, in one of the Everett branches. The fact that it is “correct” doesn’t even matter, there is only ever “close enough,” but the “correct” one is there.
I think that there is 3 option in case of incomplete information.
Do not resurrect at all.
Resurrect one individual, filling gaps with random quantum noise.
Resurrect all possible individuals with all combinations of noise.
I suggest to choose variant 2. In this case everybody is happy. The subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes. Each universe get a person which corresponds its conditions and do not get useless semi-copies of the subject.
Resurrect one individual, filling gaps with random quantum noise.
Resurrect all possible individuals with all combinations of noise.
That is a false trichotomy. You’re perfectly capable of deciding to resurrect some sparse coverage of the distribution, and those differences are not useless. In addition, “the subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes” is true of both two and three, and you don’t have to refer to spooky alternate histories to do it in the first place.
So, as I understood you, you stay for resurrecting of “sparse coverage of the distribution”, which will help to prevent exponential explosion of number of copies, but will cover most peculiar of possible copies landscape?
While I can support this case, I see the following problem: For example, I have a partner X, which will better preserved via cryonics, but my information will be partly lost. If there will be created 1000 semi-copies of me to cover the distribution, 999 of them will be without partner X, and partner X also will suffer because ve will now care for other my copies. (Ve could also be copied, but it would require coping of all world).
If it were my choice, I prefer to lose some of my memories or personal traits than to live in the world with many my copies.
I think that there is 3 option in case of incomplete information.
Do not resurrect at all.
Resurrect one individual, filling gaps with random quantum noise.
Resurrect all possible individuals with all combinations of noise.
I suggest to choose variant 2. In this case everybody is happy. The subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes. Each universe get a person which corresponds its conditions and do not get useless semi-copies of the subject.
No, that’s easy to grasp. I just wonder what the point is. Conservation of resources?
If we don’t know 100 bits of information, we need to create 2 power 100 copies to fill all gaps. Even for FAI it may be difficult. Also it may be unpleasant to the copies themselves, as it would delude their value to outside world.
What’s wrong with gaps? This is probabilistic in the first place.
If a gap is about very important feature or a secret event, it could be two completely different people. Like if we don’t know if a person of interest was a gay.
...Okay? One in ten sampled individuals will be gay. You can do that. Does it really matter when you’re resurrecting the dead?
Your own proposal is to only sample one, and call the inaccuracy “acausal trade,” which isn’t even necessary in this case. The AI is missing 100 bits. You’re already admitting many-worlds. So the AI can simply draw those 100 bits out of quantum randomness, and in each Everett branch, there will be a different individual. The incorrect ones you could call “acausal travelers,” even though you’re just wrong. There will still be the “correct” individual, the exact descendant of this reality’s instance, in one of the Everett branches. The fact that it is “correct” doesn’t even matter, there is only ever “close enough,” but the “correct” one is there.
I think that there is 3 option in case of incomplete information.
Do not resurrect at all.
Resurrect one individual, filling gaps with random quantum noise.
Resurrect all possible individuals with all combinations of noise.
I suggest to choose variant 2. In this case everybody is happy. The subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes. Each universe get a person which corresponds its conditions and do not get useless semi-copies of the subject.
That is a false trichotomy. You’re perfectly capable of deciding to resurrect some sparse coverage of the distribution, and those differences are not useless. In addition, “the subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes” is true of both two and three, and you don’t have to refer to spooky alternate histories to do it in the first place.
So, as I understood you, you stay for resurrecting of “sparse coverage of the distribution”, which will help to prevent exponential explosion of number of copies, but will cover most peculiar of possible copies landscape?
While I can support this case, I see the following problem: For example, I have a partner X, which will better preserved via cryonics, but my information will be partly lost. If there will be created 1000 semi-copies of me to cover the distribution, 999 of them will be without partner X, and partner X also will suffer because ve will now care for other my copies. (Ve could also be copied, but it would require coping of all world).
If it were my choice, I prefer to lose some of my memories or personal traits than to live in the world with many my copies.
Why would that be the case? And if it were the case, why would that be a problem?
I think that there is 3 option in case of incomplete information.
Do not resurrect at all.
Resurrect one individual, filling gaps with random quantum noise.
Resurrect all possible individuals with all combinations of noise.
I suggest to choose variant 2. In this case everybody is happy. The subject is almost exactly resurrected in one of the universes. Each universe get a person which corresponds its conditions and do not get useless semi-copies of the subject.