Eliezer: “Go ahead. Indulge your fantasy. Would you want the stone tablet to say people should die of old age, or that people should live as long as they wanted? If you could write the stone tablet yourself, what would it say?”
Excellent way of putting it… I would certainly want the option of living as long as I liked.
(Though I find it worth noting that when I was depressed, I found the idea of needing to choose when to end program abhorrent, since I figured I could go several billion years in agony before making such a choice… Many people you talk to about the meaning of death may be longing for it now. Excellent Murakami story on the subject- in the collection ‘Super Frog Saves Tokyo’, but I forgot the title. Many people are very dissatisfied with their lives.)
Some of my problems with the ‘positive singularity’ do not involve uploading proper, but parameter manipulation that anything similar to our current identity may get completely lost in… Also not quite off the problem of ‘is your clone really you?’ … or what we do with our physical selves after the upload.… All seem troubling to me.
Eliezer: “Go ahead. Indulge your fantasy. Would you want the stone tablet to say people should die of old age, or that people should live as long as they wanted? If you could write the stone tablet yourself, what would it say?”
Excellent way of putting it… I would certainly want the option of living as long as I liked. (Though I find it worth noting that when I was depressed, I found the idea of needing to choose when to end program abhorrent, since I figured I could go several billion years in agony before making such a choice… Many people you talk to about the meaning of death may be longing for it now. Excellent Murakami story on the subject- in the collection ‘Super Frog Saves Tokyo’, but I forgot the title. Many people are very dissatisfied with their lives.)
Some of my problems with the ‘positive singularity’ do not involve uploading proper, but parameter manipulation that anything similar to our current identity may get completely lost in… Also not quite off the problem of ‘is your clone really you?’ … or what we do with our physical selves after the upload.… All seem troubling to me.