[ExI] Uploads as a group of AI agents

[Keith Henson]

I kind of suspect that copies will not be permitted.  You think we
have a population problem?
Imagine the whole population multiplying by 5, 10, or 1000.  One way
this might be done is to limit uploads to those who have stored their
bodies in an inactive state.  But I don't know how it will turn out.
I do find Robin Hanson's em ideas, where endless copies are made to
reduce labor cost, to be disturbing.

Keith

On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 5:34 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>
> Especially if you find a way to recombine the agents' experiences and memories, and do so often enough (perhaps they do this once per night instead of the biological version of sleep), so you don't have 5 permanently diverged "you"s.
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 7:29 AM BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> I am large, I contain multitudes." Song of Myself, Walt Whitman 1855.
>>
>> The idea of uploading five copies of your mind to different data
>> centers, then worrying about which one is actually "you", may be
>> asking the wrong question.
>>
>> There are many aspects to a human personality. Think of all the
>> different interests, hobbies. and all the things that you never had
>> time to get round to.
>> Why not upload your mind as a group of AI agents?
>> Each agent is a genuine part of your "self" that together forms
>> an AI commune to assemble the complete "you"?
>> Better than the original, as the agents can explore all these
>> interests and all the "paths not taken" while in a human body.
>> Your upload then becomes something like the supervisor of all the
>> possibilities that you could become.
>> Not just a copy, but more complete than the original ever was.
>>
>> BillK
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