From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 18:40:06 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
>>Many extropians are only too happy to terminate a xox, or get rid of
>>a `meat' body, once the magic dust has been ported into a computer.
I can't ever recall having heard this advocated.
> *Exactly* right! And it's entirely due to our stupid evolutionary
> heritage in which we simply cannot imagine---no matter how rational
> and how logically it's laid out before us I'm coming to fear---that
> we can be
>
> B O T H
>
> uploaded and in the flesh. One CAN be in two places at the same time,
> just as one can be in two times at the same place. Jeez.
>
> Look, *after* you've uploaded, think carefully about what you are
> about to do when you terminate your million-times slower biological
> self. *Why* do it???
You're supposed to MOVE from point A to point B, not COPY yourself from
point A to point B. I don't think I've ever heard someone proposing to
terminate "their" unsynchronized meaty self.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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