It sounds like you’re arguing that uploading is impossible, and (more generally) have defined the idea of “sufficiently OOD environments” out of existence. That doesn’t seem like valid thinking to me.
Of course i’m not arguing that uploading is impossible, and obviously there are always hypothetical “sufficiently OOD environments”. But from the historical record so far we can only conclude that evolution’s alignments of brains was robust enough compared to the environment distribution shift encountered—so far. Naturally that could all change in the future, given enough time, but piling in such future predictions is clearly out of scope for an argument from historical analogy.
These are just extremely different:
an argument from historical observations
an argument from future predicted observations
It’s like I’m arguing that given that we observed the sequence 0,1,3,7 the pattern is probably 2^N-1, and you arguing that it isn’t because you predict the next digit is 31.
Regardless uploads are arguably sufficiently categorically different that its questionable how they even relate to evolutionary success of homo sapien brain alignment to genetic fitness (do sims of humans count for genetic fitness? but only if DNA is modeled in some fashion? to what level of approximation? etc.)
It sounds like you’re arguing that uploading is impossible, and (more generally) have defined the idea of “sufficiently OOD environments” out of existence. That doesn’t seem like valid thinking to me.
Of course i’m not arguing that uploading is impossible, and obviously there are always hypothetical “sufficiently OOD environments”. But from the historical record so far we can only conclude that evolution’s alignments of brains was robust enough compared to the environment distribution shift encountered—so far. Naturally that could all change in the future, given enough time, but piling in such future predictions is clearly out of scope for an argument from historical analogy.
These are just extremely different:
an argument from historical observations
an argument from future predicted observations
It’s like I’m arguing that given that we observed the sequence 0,1,3,7 the pattern is probably 2^N-1, and you arguing that it isn’t because you predict the next digit is 31.
Regardless uploads are arguably sufficiently categorically different that its questionable how they even relate to evolutionary success of homo sapien brain alignment to genetic fitness (do sims of humans count for genetic fitness? but only if DNA is modeled in some fashion? to what level of approximation? etc.)
Uploading is impossible because the cat ate the Internet cable again
Would you say it’s … _cat_egorically impossible?