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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:41:50 +0200 (CEST)
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Subject: Mad Uploading


In case there's no example from a movie or TV series popping out like 
Jack-in-the-Box with an uploading plot about a feedback against copies, how 
about a comic? Espc. a comic for females! Since C. Loveday didn't respond to my 
comic idea on Cryonics Europe, I wonder if a copy of her couldn't be doing it. 
Perhaps they are afraid there will be a copy of Proofessor RoboMoon from the 
Artifishial Unteligenz Labratory, a tender romance with AU devoted to AI, umph! 
Lovely she will be on BBC WM radio today. 

From the final part of Message #32887 by John de Rivaz:
> One way one might look at it is via the idea of feedback. If you tell
> someone how negative feedback improves the quality of the information coming
> out of an amplifier [send the signal through the amplifier and then subtract
> the difference between the input and the output divided by the gain, ie the
> error and feed that back to subtract from the input] that may well conclude
> that you are mad. It seems like going back through time to correct a mistake
> in life. Nevertheless it works if you get it right. If you conclude that
> people are ultimately information -- which is clearly what uploading and
> duplication does, then feedback considerations apply. The duplicates will
> conspire together against the duplicator to stop more being made. A time
> must come when the duplicator would be overwhelmed, leaving a finite number
> of duplicates. Come to think of it, I think this is the plot of a film or TV
> series, but can't recall the title.

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