I find this an immensely valuable insight: continuity, or “haecceity”, is the critical element of self which naive uploading scenarios dismiss. Our current rational situation of self as concept-in-brain has no need for continuity, which is counterintuitive.
We know a good deal about the universe, but we do not yet know it in its entirety. If there were an observer outside of physics, we might suspect they care great deal about continuity, or their laws might. Depending on your priors, and willingness to accept that current observational techniques cannot access all-that-there-is, it might be worth embedding some value to haecceity near your value of self.
Contrast grow-and-prune uploading with slice-and-scan uploading: the latter will be anathema to the vast majority of humanity; they may “get over it”, but it’ll be a long battle. And slice-and-scan will probably be much slower to market. Start with Glass and EEGs: we’ll get there in our lifetime using grow-and-prune, and our AIs will grow up with mentors they can respect.
I find this an immensely valuable insight: continuity, or “haecceity”, is the critical element of self which naive uploading scenarios dismiss. Our current rational situation of self as concept-in-brain has no need for continuity, which is counterintuitive.
We know a good deal about the universe, but we do not yet know it in its entirety. If there were an observer outside of physics, we might suspect they care great deal about continuity, or their laws might. Depending on your priors, and willingness to accept that current observational techniques cannot access all-that-there-is, it might be worth embedding some value to haecceity near your value of self.
Contrast grow-and-prune uploading with slice-and-scan uploading: the latter will be anathema to the vast majority of humanity; they may “get over it”, but it’ll be a long battle. And slice-and-scan will probably be much slower to market. Start with Glass and EEGs: we’ll get there in our lifetime using grow-and-prune, and our AIs will grow up with mentors they can respect.