Moreover, it notices that the slope is slippery at the very very bottom after all introspective capability has been lost, but no argument is provided about the top, AND you’re applying it to a single-step procedure with easy before/after comparison, so we can’t get a boiled-frog effect.
Overeager optimization is a serious concern once digitized, for sure.
The transition is the one in the OP—the digitization process itself, going from meat to, well, not-meat.
You only need to do that once.
The comparison would be by behavior—do they think differently, beyond what you’d expect from differing circumstances? Do they still seem human enough? Unless it is all very sudden, there will be plenty of time to notice inhumanity in the uploads.
Goes doubly if they can be placed in convincing androids, so the circumstances differ as little as possible.
That answers problems 1 and 3, but not problem 2.
Moreover, it notices that the slope is slippery at the very very bottom after all introspective capability has been lost, but no argument is provided about the top, AND you’re applying it to a single-step procedure with easy before/after comparison, so we can’t get a boiled-frog effect.
Overeager optimization is a serious concern once digitized, for sure.
Sorry, what before/after comparison are you thinking of?
The transition is the one in the OP—the digitization process itself, going from meat to, well, not-meat.
You only need to do that once.
The comparison would be by behavior—do they think differently, beyond what you’d expect from differing circumstances? Do they still seem human enough? Unless it is all very sudden, there will be plenty of time to notice inhumanity in the uploads.
Goes doubly if they can be placed in convincing androids, so the circumstances differ as little as possible.