The best thing it could do would be retrieve my dead friends and family.
Out of curiosity—how accurate would the retrieval need to be? For instance, suppose the FAI accessed your memories and reconstructed your friends based on the information found there, extrapolating the bits you didn’t know. Obviously they wouldn’t be the same people, since the FAI had to make up a lot of stuff neither you nor it knew. But since the main model was a fit to your memories, they’d still seem just like your friends to you. Would you find that acceptable?
My initial reaction is that I would really hate this. It’s one of the things that makes me really uneasy about extreme “neural archaeology”-style cryonics: I want an actual reconstruction, not just a plausible one.
Out of curiosity—how accurate would the retrieval need to be? For instance, suppose the FAI accessed your memories and reconstructed your friends based on the information found there, extrapolating the bits you didn’t know. Obviously they wouldn’t be the same people, since the FAI had to make up a lot of stuff neither you nor it knew. But since the main model was a fit to your memories, they’d still seem just like your friends to you. Would you find that acceptable?
No. That would not be okay with me, assuming I knew this about the process.
My initial reaction is that I would really hate this. It’s one of the things that makes me really uneasy about extreme “neural archaeology”-style cryonics: I want an actual reconstruction, not just a plausible one.