We can hope that. Another thing we could hope is that we don't really figure out what makes intelligence tick until after the (temporary) end of scarcity or un

We can hope that. Another thing we could hope is that we don't really figure out what makes intelligence tick until after the (temporary) end of scarcity or until after uploading is possible. Given our problems with building large software systems, it seems possible to me that we'll be able to copy the brain before we understand enough to build intelligence without such copying. This puts me in the bizarre position of being very interested in languages and systems which directly address complexity, while hoping in some ways that we fail to figure out how to build significantly more complex systems from scratch. :)