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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Rich people would try to develop a technique to identify and transfer their wealth to their next life. If no way exists to identify people apart from memory, you would probably get a lot of people claiming to be the same wealthy dead person.

    Things also might get ugly if people or states try to punish the reincarnations of people for whom death or a life sentence wasn’t determined to be “enough” (though on the other hand, I suppose murder would be less heinous a crime since the victim just comes back and isn’t gone), or if people seek out the reincarnations of dead spouses, since those reincarnated people would now be babies.

    On the brighter side, if those past memories are good enough, education becomes a lot more effective since it doesn’t just teach the current person but all their future incarnations until the subject matter gets forgotten or out of date.




  • Suppose you want to buy something that costs a quarter, and what you have is 3 dimes. If there isnt a 5 cent coin, this creates a situation where you have enough money, but making exact change isnt possible, which while not impossible to deal with is bothersome. If we moved to only dimes and no quarters or nickels, it would never make sense to make a price end in 5 cents, so any price would be a multiple of 10 cents and change can always be made. Alternatively, if you get rid of dimes and nickels but keep quarters, then it doesnt make sense to charge a price ending in something other than .00, .25, .50, or .75, and so you can always make change for those prices with the coins one would have.

















  • It’s not really true that they have no ethics though, if it was, it’d be a simpler problem, because they’d presumably just care about reducing unpleasant consequences to themselves and as such a legal deterrent should be effective. The issue is that they have different ethics, which are misaligned with everyone else’s and so result in conflict when they stubbornly refuse to do something that everyone else perceives as a no-brainer. It isn’t like the church gets some material gain out of keeping confession secret.