[ExI] Mind Uploading: is it still me?

[Keith Henson]

I have considered this.  I think there should be a restriction or
custom of one at a time.  You can either be an active meat body or an
upload, but not both at the same time.  And copies are not permitted.
Otherwise, the population gets entirely out of hand.  Robin Hanson and
I differ on this point.  He thinks uploaded copies will be made in
large numbers, driving the value of each one to near zero.  Lots of
scope for dystopian SF.

Keith

On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
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> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> All my copies have an equal right to call themselves John K Clark, but all of them would insist that only one of them is "me" because all the copies would start to diverge at the instant they were made, assuming they were exposed to different environmental conditions, because then they would all start having different memories.
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