You have access to your future mind in the sense that it is an evolution of your current mind. Your copy’s future mind is an evolution of your copy’s current mind, not yours.
My copy’s future mind is an evolution of me pre-copy’s current mind, and correlates overwhelmingly for a fairly long time after the copy was made. That means that making the copy is good for all me’s pre-copy and to some (large) degree even post-copy. I’d certainly be more willing to take risks if I had a backup. After all, what do I stand to lose? A few days of memory?
(I don’t see any situation, basically, crippling computing scarcity aside, in which I would be better off not uploading.)
To clarify: I don’t put stock into single-instance continuity. I want the future to have me’s in it, I don’t particularly care what their substrate is, or if they’re second-to-second continuous.
My copy’s future mind is an evolution of me pre-copy’s current mind, and correlates overwhelmingly for a fairly long time after the copy was made. That means that making the copy is good for all me’s pre-copy and to some (large) degree even post-copy. I’d certainly be more willing to take risks if I had a backup. After all, what do I stand to lose? A few days of memory?
(I don’t see any situation, basically, crippling computing scarcity aside, in which I would be better off not uploading.)
To clarify: I don’t put stock into single-instance continuity. I want the future to have me’s in it, I don’t particularly care what their substrate is, or if they’re second-to-second continuous.