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Trope-a-Day: Only One Me Allowed Right Now

Alistair Young

Alistair Young

May 19, 2015

Only One Me Allowed Right Now: Averted.  You can have as many of yourself as your resources can support, so far as practicality and the law are concerned; this is, indeed, the solution, thanks to easy fork/merge technology, to all kinds of problems from the fundamental to the trivial.  (See: Mundane Utility.)

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Trope-a-Day: Fantastic Time Management

Fantastic Time Management: Averted. The preferred solution to “you don’t have enough time” is not to make more time, it’s to make more you. Which is much easier, it turns out.

Jan 4, 2017

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Trope-a-Day: Backup Twin

Backup Twin: What you acquire when your incarnation insurer thought you were dead, but it turns out you weren’t. (They do try very hard to not let this happen, but the trouble is, the more checking you do, the more time you get to stay dead for if you

Jun 3, 2016

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Questions: Pattern Identity and Succession

More from Specialist290, because it’s post-dinner: A few small questions regarding pattern identity and the metaphysics thereof: 1. Are there any possible scenarios where two forks of the same personality can diverge from one another significantly enough for them to be regarded as different persons, when the result of

Jan 16, 2016

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Trope-a-Day: Twin Maker

Twin Maker: While teleportation doesn’t exist, mindcasting, forking, and reinstantiation, along with more exotic sophotechnology, can create much the same effects.  (Although, in mindcasting, the first step is to perform an orderly shutdown, because while you can happily transmit a static mind-state vector, transmitting a running one is a

Jan 14, 2016
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