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Old 11-01-2010, 02:23 PM   #506
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Default Re: Ghosts and Mind Copies - The Identity Question

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Originally Posted by Pomphis View Post
The wordline model would treat that as suicide plus reproduction, not break down.

But more robust ? After we have two (or a million) Vickys, with whom is your spouse married ? Whom does it have to pay maintenance, or who owes it maintenance ? Who is a legal heir of whom ? Who goes to work, and who gets the salary ? Which one is prime minister of ukraine ? What happens to Vicky-Biological´s property when he uploads and a dozen ghosts are made ?
So you don't see a problem with it letting murderers (or whatever) walk the earth thanks to such a procedure? (I hope you agree that a legal system must prevent further crime while not infringing the rights of people.)

Pays maintenance according to the criteria of the contract. A very literal reading of a very naïve (pre-ghosting style) contract will probably result in a case where paying the maintenance to any one ghost will fulfill the criteria of the contract. But in the age of ghosting, contracts should be written with such criteria as to not break down (e.g. maintenance only paid to the instance with the longest existing uptime as measured by the official clock of the jurisdiction).

With work and pay, it gets even more heavily into the difference between identification and authorization. Just like vicky-15yo and vicky-16yo are both vickies, but only the latter is authorized to matriculate into a university, so only the one doing work should be authorized to take the money.

As things get more and more complicated, laws start needing a more and more genericness.
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