That’s the tradeoffs from hell we have to confront, there are arguments on either side of the decision. I was responding to your “AIs of today will take longer to kill us all, but they’ll still degrade our soul-data”, a claim about AIs of today (as opposed to AIs of tomorrow), not about human mortality. If AIs of tomorrow eat humanity’s soul outright, its degradation from mortality and forgetting is the lesser evil that persists while we get better at doing something about AIs of tomorrow. (There is also growth while humanity lives, hope to find a way forward, not only ongoing damage.)
That’s the tradeoffs from hell we have to confront, there are arguments on either side of the decision. I was responding to your “AIs of today will take longer to kill us all, but they’ll still degrade our soul-data”, a claim about AIs of today (as opposed to AIs of tomorrow), not about human mortality. If AIs of tomorrow eat humanity’s soul outright, its degradation from mortality and forgetting is the lesser evil that persists while we get better at doing something about AIs of tomorrow. (There is also growth while humanity lives, hope to find a way forward, not only ongoing damage.)