[ExI] The atoms red herring. =|

Alan Grimes agrimes at speakeasy.net
Thu Nov 18 14:36:01 UTC 2010


Samantha Atkins wrote:

> If you could upload people to an environment with even more opportunity, richness of experience and
> quality of life than what we have now and with much much better
longevity and prospects for open
> ended growth and becoming, then how would not doing so be more
'friendly' than doing so?

Base reality inherently provides the most opportunity possible.
Uploading to an "environment" as you call it inherently, inevitably,
severely, and permanently diminishes that opportunity. =(


> How would it be more moral?  What if you can see the blockages and
misapprehensions that would cause
> many people to refuse this if asked, as an advanced AGI probably
could.  Would it then still be
> moral to let people suffer and die final death here in slow time to
accede to their possibly
> actually irrational wishes?

Choice is sacred, EOD.

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