For the sake of argument, some numbers to match the assumptions you named. Let’s base these assumptions on some numbers available to Americans today, rounded to even numbers in the direction least favorable to my argument.
Percentage of population that are psychopaths: 1% (two orders of magnitude more non psychopaths than psychopaths exist today)
Probability of being victim of violent crime varies a lot based on demographics, 10 per 1000 per year is reasonable...so 1%
Power consumption of human mind: 20W (based on the human brain, we will not hit this immediately, but it is a design goal, and may even be exceeded in efficiency as we get better)
Power consumed by typical American household: 900kWh per month (100 years in brain-seconds)
Number of humans available for uploading: 10 billion.
Over a hundred thousand years, that’s a lot of terrible people, a lot of spare capacity for evil, and a high probability of everyone eventually experiencing a violent crime, like upload-torment. Changes to those numbers unfavorable to this scenario require incredible optimism about social developments, and pessimism about technical developments.
I feel like just about anyone, even without a stanford prison experiment like environment, can muster up the will to leave a lightbulb on for a while out of spite.
Arguably, once ‘captured’, the aggregate total time spent experiencing torture for a given future copy of you may vastly exceed the time spent on anything else.
Anyone who argues in favor of ‘merciful’ euthanasia for people on the way to horrific medical problems would likely argue in favor of secure deletion to avoid an eternity in hell.
For the sake of argument, some numbers to match the assumptions you named. Let’s base these assumptions on some numbers available to Americans today, rounded to even numbers in the direction least favorable to my argument.
Percentage of population that are psychopaths: 1% (two orders of magnitude more non psychopaths than psychopaths exist today) Probability of being victim of violent crime varies a lot based on demographics, 10 per 1000 per year is reasonable...so 1% Power consumption of human mind: 20W (based on the human brain, we will not hit this immediately, but it is a design goal, and may even be exceeded in efficiency as we get better) Power consumed by typical American household: 900kWh per month (100 years in brain-seconds) Number of humans available for uploading: 10 billion.
Over a hundred thousand years, that’s a lot of terrible people, a lot of spare capacity for evil, and a high probability of everyone eventually experiencing a violent crime, like upload-torment. Changes to those numbers unfavorable to this scenario require incredible optimism about social developments, and pessimism about technical developments.
I feel like just about anyone, even without a stanford prison experiment like environment, can muster up the will to leave a lightbulb on for a while out of spite.
Arguably, once ‘captured’, the aggregate total time spent experiencing torture for a given future copy of you may vastly exceed the time spent on anything else.
Anyone who argues in favor of ‘merciful’ euthanasia for people on the way to horrific medical problems would likely argue in favor of secure deletion to avoid an eternity in hell.