3 ms·
Not a singularitarian myself but personally, I don't care as long as the simulation is sufficiently good (waves hands vigorously). Though I would prefer in the
by mattnewton 10y ago
Not a singularitarian myself but personally, I don't care as long as the simulation is sufficiently good (waves hands vigorously). Though I would prefer in the case of a duplicate that I wasn't euthanized.
- vkou 10y agoWhat does it matter to you that a copy of you is uploaded, but you are left to wither away in meatspace? That's nice for the copy, I guess, but how will it benefit you?
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoI think you could at least make the argument your copy has a similar sort of relationship to you that a child does, so you might reasonably be a little more invested in its happiness than some other random AI (not that I am optimistic about the prospects for uploading consciousness).
- grondilu 10y agoIt matters because the original and the copy belong to the same reference class[1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sampling_assumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sampling_assumption
- mattnewton 10y agoSimilar to how I want people to remember me, and how I would like children of mine to live on and prosper. We are all, on some level, replicating machines who want to organize the world for more of ourselves. Edit: Even our bodies are completely renewed over time, and any sense of self similarity that relies on the particular arrangement of matter seems fraught with problems to me.