Into the Silent Land
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…in the end, my final choice would probably be the Bible.) Fiction: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner Non-fiction: In Good Company - Stanley Hauerwas Into the Silent Land - Martin Laird
on “Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?” ↗…soul, it still is a problem, because you are still killing a person. Why should I care that my exact clone will be living my life, if I'll be vaporized? And consider another scenario, as described in "Into the Silent Land" - what if there's a malfunction and the clone is created, but I am not immediately destroyed - should I then voluntarily agree to be killed just to make sure there's only one of myself?
on “10^28 kilobytes will be required to teleport an entire human being [pdf]” ↗