We would (at some point) be dealing with conscious beings, and performing virtual brain surgery on them has ethical implications.
Hopefully volunteers could be found; but in any case, the stakes here are the end of the world, the end justifies the means.
To whoever downvoted Roko’s comment—check out the distinction between these ideas:
One Life Against the World
Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)
I’d volunteer and I’m sure I’m not the only one here.
Heroes of the future sign up in this thread ;-)
You’re not, though I’m not sure I’d be an especially useful data source.
I’ve met at least one person who would like a synesthesia on-off switch for their brain—that would make your data useful right there.
Looks to me like that’d be one of the more complicated things to pull off, unfortunately. Too bad; I know a few people who’d like that, too.
Please expand on what “the end” means in this case. What do you expect we would gain from perfecting whole-brain emulation, I assume of humans ? How does that get us out of our current mess, exactly ?
I think that WBE stands a greater chance of precipitating a friendly singularity.
Hopefully volunteers could be found; but in any case, the stakes here are the end of the world, the end justifies the means.
To whoever downvoted Roko’s comment—check out the distinction between these ideas:
One Life Against the World
Ends Don’t Justify Means (Among Humans)
I’d volunteer and I’m sure I’m not the only one here.
Heroes of the future sign up in this thread ;-)
You’re not, though I’m not sure I’d be an especially useful data source.
I’ve met at least one person who would like a synesthesia on-off switch for their brain—that would make your data useful right there.
Looks to me like that’d be one of the more complicated things to pull off, unfortunately. Too bad; I know a few people who’d like that, too.
Please expand on what “the end” means in this case. What do you expect we would gain from perfecting whole-brain emulation, I assume of humans ? How does that get us out of our current mess, exactly ?
I think that WBE stands a greater chance of precipitating a friendly singularity.