suppose human duplication and merging technology exists. suppose i duplicate myself before an election with no intent to ever merge back into one. is it fair for both copies to get a vote? what if i half intend to merge back in a month? fully intend to merge back in a day?
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if you voted "no no no": is it fair for me to get two votes if i duplicate myself in a lab accident? if it fair for me to get two votes if i duplicate involuntarily due to acute duplicatitis? is it fair for conjoined twins to get two votes?
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
to me the amount of time since duplication is what matters; with sufficient time there's enough divergence that I'd consider the two more like twins (who should both be able to vote) than the same person
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so it's psychological divergence between duplication and vote that matters? why? would convergence also matter?
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
well, I'm relying on twin intuition– they spontaneously duplicated before birth, and won't ever re-converge, so we treat them as two unique individuals. I do think that reconvergence matters, since your vote should (imo) have influence proportionate to the number of yous affected
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but the mes affected are later in time than the mes who are voting and could have split and diverged much more by then
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