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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if you voted "no no yes": is it fair for me to get two votes (on adulthood) if i duplicated due to duplicatitis at age 17? age 10? age 3?
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
naturally this is an empirical question; one should perform psychometric tests on the duplicates and once they differ by the average MZ twin amount you're good to go
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what if my copy scores differently because my copy got drunk before the test? what if, furthermore, my copy gets drunk all the time and i don't?
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
in the former case, it seems like a poorly administered test? in the latter case, it seems like radically different behavior between the two would be decent evidence that they've diverged in itself
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not necessarily - we could have agreed one of us would become an alcoholic so we could have two votes
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
yeah, it definitely can be gamed, absent some hypothetical test that can measure personality without measurement error (even in the face of attempts to fool it)
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