[ExI] The atoms red herring. =|

[Samantha Atkins]

On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:

> 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.

Not so, or at least not at all provably so.  And of course, we have no certainty that our "base reality" really is base.

> Uploading to an "environment" as you call it inherently, inevitably,
> severely, and permanently diminishes that opportunity. =(

That is mere opinion.

> 
> 
>> 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.
> 

Really?  So if you know X is insane then are X's choices still sacred?  

- samantha