All readers, please vote up this comment if you believe identity
doesn’t follow atoms.
In groups of this sort of course everybody says identity doesn’t follow atoms, the word “soul” is not very trendy at the moment; but when you get down to it, when you start debating with them you always find that they do think identity does follow atoms, always, every fucking time; you do too. I say that last because how else can you explain your idiotic friendly AI belief unless we had a soul and the AI didn’t?
Vote down this comment if you believe that it does.
I vote down your comment and you vote down mine. Is this the path to enlightenment? At any rate I freely admit that in this sort or contest you will win and I will not; virtually nobody agrees with me. I am sure you will get an astronomically high rating and I will approach negative infinity. It doesn’t matter, I’ve seen it all before; it doesn’t alter the fact that I’m right and you are wrong, dead wrong.
John, I’m not sure what we can say to convince you you’re fighting a battle that doesn’t need to be fought on this ground.
(other than, perhaps, to suggest that you get some sleep)
Would it help if I said I’d happily sign up to be uploaded now, if I knew I could look forward to a similarly rich experience in a mainframe, and perhaps the ability to engineer a body to walk about in from time to time, when the whim took me?
Would it help if I said I’d happily sign up to be uploaded now,
if I knew I could look forward to a similarly rich experience
in a mainframe, and perhaps the ability to engineer a body
to walk about in from time to time, when the whim took me?
Yes I’d have to say that would help, If you did say it.
Oh. Well then, yes, yes I would. If it meant I could self-modify, and especially if it meant I could gain a bit of control over my pair-bonding mechanisms, then I would in a heartbeat.
In groups of this sort of course everybody says identity doesn’t follow atoms, the word “soul” is not very trendy at the moment; but when you get down to it, when you start debating with them you always find that they do think identity does follow atoms, always, every fucking time; you do too. I say that last because how else can you explain your idiotic friendly AI belief unless we had a soul and the AI didn’t?
I vote down your comment and you vote down mine. Is this the path to enlightenment? At any rate I freely admit that in this sort or contest you will win and I will not; virtually nobody agrees with me. I am sure you will get an astronomically high rating and I will approach negative infinity. It doesn’t matter, I’ve seen it all before; it doesn’t alter the fact that I’m right and you are wrong, dead wrong.
John, I’m not sure what we can say to convince you you’re fighting a battle that doesn’t need to be fought on this ground.
(other than, perhaps, to suggest that you get some sleep)
Would it help if I said I’d happily sign up to be uploaded now, if I knew I could look forward to a similarly rich experience in a mainframe, and perhaps the ability to engineer a body to walk about in from time to time, when the whim took me?
Yes I’d have to say that would help, If you did say it.
Oh. Well then, yes, yes I would. If it meant I could self-modify, and especially if it meant I could gain a bit of control over my pair-bonding mechanisms, then I would in a heartbeat.