trope-a-day
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.
forking
trope-a-day
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
pattern identity
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
trope-a-day
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