Intergalactic Summit

And what is your evidence of this lack of empathy Miss Priano? That I oppose the turning of people from individuals into State puppets? That I oppose the wanton destruction of innocents as a "military distraction" in order to achieve objectives for a mad dictator who broke treaties that had endured a century of peace? That I actively encourage aid and charity organisations to cooperate with the Federation, which operates the largest aid efforts of any Empire in the cluster?

There is room for both empathy and sympathy in this world Miss Priano, they are both useful. One allows us to relate and act on that innate understanding of the others plight, the other allows us to act with care even if we don't fully appreciate the circumstance of the other party.

You don't need to have been a slave in order to sympathise with one and help them, I hardly consider that useless Miss Priano.

Empathy is demonstrated through understanding, Striker. You clearly lack it.

Return when you can convince us that you understand, instead of repeating platitudes.

So you'd rather compound the problem and stoop to the level of other narrow minded jingoistic pilots.
In which case I have taken your response and wish to reply in the following way:
**** you.

There may have been a day I might have had a care; but it is not this day.



You're still going on with this, or are you so socially inept you are unable to discern I currently give zero fucks what you think?

The decision map which makes up your brain will have changed between the point of softcloning and the present. This creates a non-identity relationship between the maps. I suppose that one might be able to extrapolate the difference between them and bring the softclone up to an identity state once more, but continuity is lost upon a significant change to the original map. So it isn't "you" in any sense that "you" can exist at all, just as you are not a five year old Jinari. You were, but you aren't any more. Does that make sense?

Hahahaah, yeah. I understand what you mean, but "now" me and "then" me are both me. If "now" me cease to exist, "then" me takes over. Of course it'll never reach the same state as the dead one, but given that the dead variant made decisions leading to her death that can be considered a good thing.

You're not you either, once you've read this particular post. You'll have become a new you with new memories and knowledge. Should you then immediately immerse yourself in a sensory deprivation tank to preserve yourself against the ravages of future you? Of course not. Nor do I fear my past self, should she have to take over after I sod something up.

Every single instant may create a whole new me or you, but as long as just one of my clones are active at any given moment, the differences are entirely academic to whichever me is active at the time.

Continuity of consciousness is everything.

Otherwise we are no different than baseliners and their short lives.

Eventually all threads, without question, will inevitably turn to racism or nationalism. It's the IGS equivalent of gravity. No matter how far up you try to get the level of conversation, the gravity of inter-imperial bickering will return it to its most common level eventually.

Which is why the Federation must be destroyed, I'm told.

I prefer a good Caldari coilgun or Minmatar pistol to anything fancier. I have extensive training with a saber, but while the skill is honed an the blade is sharp, the opportunities to utilize them are few and far between.

Befitting my job as an intelligence officer, it's much more likely I'd activate the failsafe in me and terminate myself than actually fight or risk the chance of being captured.

No, discontinuity happens when the individual reverses to an anterior state at t = t - x.

Which is the basic definition of soft cloning.

It is another form of copying someone at t = 0, where at t = 0 they will be the same individual, and at t + 1 will already be different.