Similarly a clone of Sundar Pichai can write a check to buy your company equally with the original and Google will treat the check the same as if the original wrote it.
Sticking with the hypothetical where what we have is a Calvin-and-Hobbes-style duplicator, I don’t think this would work.
You can’t run a company with 100 different CEOs, even if at one point those people all had exactly the same memories. Sure, at the time of duplication, any one of the copies could be made the CEO. But from that point on their memories and the information they have access to will diverge. And you don’t want Sundar #42 randomly overruling a decision Sundar #35 made because he didn’t know about it.
So no, I don’t think they could all be given CEO-level decision making power (unless you also stipulate some super-coordination technology besides just the C&H-style duplicator).
Ok fair enough. I just cannot think of a physical realization of this duplication technology that wouldn’t also give you the ability to sync copies and/or freeze policy updates to a copy.
What “freezing policy updates” means is that the neural network is unable to learn, though there would be storage of local context data that gets saved to a database and flushed once the individual switches tasks.
Doing it this way means that all clones of Sundar Pichai remain immutable and semi-deterministic, such that you can treat a decision made by any one of them the same as any other. (like it is in the computer science equivalent).
But yes if you posit the ‘exactly like calvin & hobbs’, even though there is no plausible technology that would be able to do this yet not allow you to do other manipulations, since in order to clone someone’s mind you must be able to read and write values stored in it, therefore you are able to do all of the above.
Sticking with the hypothetical where what we have is a Calvin-and-Hobbes-style duplicator, I don’t think this would work.
You can’t run a company with 100 different CEOs, even if at one point those people all had exactly the same memories. Sure, at the time of duplication, any one of the copies could be made the CEO. But from that point on their memories and the information they have access to will diverge. And you don’t want Sundar #42 randomly overruling a decision Sundar #35 made because he didn’t know about it.
So no, I don’t think they could all be given CEO-level decision making power (unless you also stipulate some super-coordination technology besides just the C&H-style duplicator).
Ok fair enough. I just cannot think of a physical realization of this duplication technology that wouldn’t also give you the ability to sync copies and/or freeze policy updates to a copy.
What “freezing policy updates” means is that the neural network is unable to learn, though there would be storage of local context data that gets saved to a database and flushed once the individual switches tasks.
Doing it this way means that all clones of Sundar Pichai remain immutable and semi-deterministic, such that you can treat a decision made by any one of them the same as any other. (like it is in the computer science equivalent).
But yes if you posit the ‘exactly like calvin & hobbs’, even though there is no plausible technology that would be able to do this yet not allow you to do other manipulations, since in order to clone someone’s mind you must be able to read and write values stored in it, therefore you are able to do all of the above.