Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: mmm@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Utility Fog for crash protection Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 21:33:12 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 21 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu djoslin@yeager.bbn.com says: > Why worry about the car wreck (or bomb, or whatever) in the first > place? Wouldn't it be easier to "back yourself up" frequently > (incremental backup?) and have yourself reconstructed if disaster > ever strikes? I'm not sure many people would want a backup. Even if they did, they might want to carry it with them, to make absolutely sure no one would steal it. Consider the consequences of losing a copy of yourself. Some unscrupulous person might make copies of you and abuse them. IMHO the worst thing that could happen would be if somebody let loose a slightly damaged/modified copy. It might take over your bank account. If you're dead, it could claim to be you and discredit everything you'd ever done. It might repudiate all the opinions expressed in your books, and it might rape and murder in your name. And nothing would be more capable of doing this than a slightly modified you. Both cryonics and downloading suffer from this fearsome possibility.