Re: what it's like to be uploaded

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 23:31:33 MST


Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, <sentience@pobox.com>, writes:
> I see myself taking the hand of my friendly grown-up
> seed-AI-become-Power and walking directly into the land of
> superintelligence, discarding or epiphenomenalizing any parts of myself
> that turn out to be unnecessary.

If we assume that the resulting being is incomprehensibly different
from what you are today, then what is the point? Why not just kill
yourself? What is it that you hope to preserve or gain by going through
a transformation more thorough than death?

Hal



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