FWIW, I think that mind uploading is much less likely to work than a purely synthetic AI, at least in reasonably near-term scenarios. I have never read any description of how mind uploading is going to work which doesn’t begin by assuming that the hard part (capturing all of the necessary state from an existing mind) is already done.
FWIW, I think that mind uploading is much less likely to work than a purely synthetic AI, at least in reasonably near-term scenarios. I have never read any description of how mind uploading is going to work which doesn’t begin by assuming that the hard part (capturing all of the necessary state from an existing mind) is already done.
I agree that purely synthetic AI will probably happen sooner.