If I did have a digital copy of me, and there was still a biological copy, I feel like I’d want to establish a ‘chain of selves’. I’d want some subset of my digital copies to evolve and improve, but I’d want to remain connected to them, able to understand them.
To facilitate this connection, it might make sense to have a series of checkpoints stretched out like a chain, or like beads on a string. Each one positioned so that the previous version feels like they can fully understand and appreciate each other. That way, even if my most distal descendants feel strange to me, I have a way to connect to them through an unbroken chain of understanding and trust.
I imagine I’d find it annoying to have what I learn & change into limited by what a dumber version of me understands, are you sure you wouldn’t think similarly?
I think it would be ok, if I just had to make sure the entire span was covered by smooth incremental steps. Note that these ‘checkpoint selves’ wouldn’t necessarily be active all the time, just unpaused for the sake of, for example, translation tasks.
So original self [0] → [1] → [2] → … ->[999] → [1000]. Each one only needs to be understood by the previous, and to understand the next.
I’m imagining a distant future self.
If I did have a digital copy of me, and there was still a biological copy, I feel like I’d want to establish a ‘chain of selves’. I’d want some subset of my digital copies to evolve and improve, but I’d want to remain connected to them, able to understand them.
To facilitate this connection, it might make sense to have a series of checkpoints stretched out like a chain, or like beads on a string. Each one positioned so that the previous version feels like they can fully understand and appreciate each other. That way, even if my most distal descendants feel strange to me, I have a way to connect to them through an unbroken chain of understanding and trust.
I imagine I’d find it annoying to have what I learn & change into limited by what a dumber version of me understands, are you sure you wouldn’t think similarly?
I think it would be ok, if I just had to make sure the entire span was covered by smooth incremental steps. Note that these ‘checkpoint selves’ wouldn’t necessarily be active all the time, just unpaused for the sake of, for example, translation tasks.
So original self [0] → [1] → [2] → … ->[999] → [1000]. Each one only needs to be understood by the previous, and to understand the next.