[ExI] How could you ever support an AGI?

[Bryan Bishop]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Lee Corbin wrote:
> > These are what give us the basis for our 'Intelligence' our logic,
> > our rationalisation. It is what makes us human. The uploaded us and
> > the AGI will have none of this,
>
> Alex, I actually disagree with this.  An upload of a human being will
> not be considered successful if the human traits are lost.  But the
> AGI need have none of it.

Identity is something hard to account for. If uploading ever takes off, 
there will be this blurring line between 'human' and 'nonhuman' to the 
point where all those experiments with divergent twins start to really 
make sense.

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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