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The Bobiverse - A good read to be sure. But for some reason Bob never engages in geometric growth. The resources in our asteroid belt for instance could run to

The Bobiverse - A good read to be sure. But for some reason Bob never engages in geometric growth. The resources in our asteroid belt for instance could run to billions of Bobs, but his numbers somehow grow linearly (even though out of communication with other Bobs for millenia; how do they coordinate?) Also the contradiction where you can make backups, but somehow they lose some Bobs to accident or war. Wtf? The principle benefit of being a Bob is backups. Then there's the oddity that backups work and reinstate the same Bob, but new containers for Bob always end up with slightly different personalities even when programmed with a backup. Seems a direct contradiction, but oh well. The central conceit of the series is, most personalities instantiated as a machine intelligence went nuts. But Bob was a science fiction fan/writer. So he managed. I like that.

fbdab103 4y ago
> ...lose some Bobs to accident or war. Wtf? Because the copies are imperfect, I took the in-universe explanation to be that, while yes, they can technically restore a backup, the restoration is going to be another new personality. >...but new containers for Bob always end up with slightly different personalities I think this is a story-telling device to give us new character perspectives. Otherwise the majority of the story would be, "Great idea Bob", "I agree, Bob". It also allows for the writer to invent whatever character expertise is required for the plot.
- ptsneves 4y ago
  The newest bobiverse book hints that the copies are slightly different due to the no clone paradox. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem