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Forgive my going off-topic, but what you wrote is basically my conclusion after reading the short story Lena [1] (mentioned some time ago on HN; strongly recomm
by gattr 4y ago
Forgive my going off-topic, but what you wrote is basically my conclusion after reading the short story Lena [1] (mentioned some time ago on HN; strongly recommended). TL;DR: when mind uploading becomes possible, don't be an early adopter.
[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
- Salgat 4y agoMan that was horrifying to read, but also seems so plausible. I really hope that humans respect the sentience of artificial life in the future. Knowing the greed of humans though, it'll probably be treated as a loophole for what is extremely cheap labor, effectively slavery.
- jgilias 4y agoThanks for sharing this! The takeaway for me is - to try and never respond to intimidation and fear with productivity, only respond positively to a positive stimulus. Lest I’m already in some kind of a simulation running software development workloads.
- sparks1970 4y agoMy takeaway: Death is a feature not a bug. The alternatives are much worse.
- gattr 4y agoI see it differently; I'd be OK with an upload if the alternative is death, but only under strong protections: the digital version is legally treated as a human, I have full autonomy, the compute resources to run me (and the simulated environment of my choice) indefinitely are assured, and I can still interact with the real world. I'd just go on doing my usual stuff, like writing software for fun, enthusing over new discoveries in astronomy... I can recommend Greg Egan's novels that touch on this: 1) Permutation City (mind uploading tech in its infancy) 2) Diaspora (mind uploading well established)