6. Spreading throughout the galaxy would certainly be harder if nothing like mind uploading (which I’ll discuss in a future piece, and which is part of why I think future space settlements could have “value lock-in” as discussed above) can ever be done. I would find a view that “mind uploading is impossible” to be “wild” in its own way, because it implies that human brains are so special that there is simply no way, ever, to digitally replicate what they’re doing. (Thanks to David Roodman for this point.)
6. Spreading throughout the galaxy would certainly be harder if nothing like mind uploading (which I’ll discuss in a future piece, and which is part of why I think future space settlements could have “value lock-in” as discussed above) can ever be done. I would find a view that “mind uploading is impossible” to be “wild” in its own way, because it implies that human brains are so special that there is simply no way, ever, to digitally replicate what they’re doing. (Thanks to David Roodman for this point.)