Because it’s a copy of you and you’ll stay dead either way, so there’s no moral or altruistic reason to boot up a copy.
To the article’s premise where this technology constitutes resurrection, I’m not convinced that a post-neural-cloning society in the year 3000 would lack the automated resource access to flip the question to “why not?”
We’re already seeing population growth slowing or reversing in populations with mere modern levels of abundance, and we don’t even have The Good Matrix yet! And that’s basically paired with the tech that enables digital mind clones - fully digital interfaces between mind and sensory data / bodily functions, so you can make a virtual world to exist in instead of wiring up a bunch of prosthetics. So you won’t need any non-fungible material resources to satisfy your every material desire.
Atoms have no identity. There is no concept of a "copy" of you. You only exist as a fleeting configuration of particles that's already distinct to the you remember from yesterday. If they boot you up, you'll be yourself in the same way in which you'll be yourself tomorrow.
What happens when two copies of the same person are made?
What is the minimum divergence between these “fleeting configurations” before the copy stops being a copy and is someone else? What is the minimum convergence before I become you?
Is it “you” if it’s a copy of your orientation 20 years ago instead of your last actual configuration?
To the article’s premise where this technology constitutes resurrection, I’m not convinced that a post-neural-cloning society in the year 3000 would lack the automated resource access to flip the question to “why not?”
We’re already seeing population growth slowing or reversing in populations with mere modern levels of abundance, and we don’t even have The Good Matrix yet! And that’s basically paired with the tech that enables digital mind clones - fully digital interfaces between mind and sensory data / bodily functions, so you can make a virtual world to exist in instead of wiring up a bunch of prosthetics. So you won’t need any non-fungible material resources to satisfy your every material desire.