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Donald Hobson's avatar

Of course if a great many people tried this trick, they might bid the “price” down very low. “They want you to revive them for a week to get your info; I only ask one day.” So elites might regulate who is allowed to leave legacy data stores, to keep this privilege to themselves.Really? In my limited experience of human nature, most people don't take thought experiments involving future aliens all that seriously. Maybe one rich nutter leaves this kind of data store, and nobody else cares. I'm not saying its impossible, I'm just saying it doesn't seem that likely to me.

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If this kind of homomorphic encryption were possible it would solve a large concern with mind uploading, and close a plot device used in some sci-fi books.

No longer do you need to worry about your simulated mind being tortured. You have full control over your simulation environment; the simulator still has full control over whether or not you are simulated but they can only communicate with you over a channel.

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