Michael Vassar: “Phil: Eliezer has repeatedly said that ems (formerly uploads) are people. Eliezer, can you please clarify this point in a simple direct comment aimed at Phil?”
Huh? No need. Why would you think I’m unaware of that?
I notice that several people replied to my question, Why not colonize America?; yet no one addressed it. I think they fail to see the strength of the analogy. Humans use many more resources than ems or AIs. If you take the resources from the humans and give them to the AI, you will at some point be able to support 100 times as many “equivalent”, equally happy people. Make an argument for not doing that. And don’t, as komponisto did, just say that it’s the right thing to do.
Everybody says that not taking the land from the Native Americans would have been the right thing to do; but nobody wants to give it back.
An argument against universe-tiling would also be welcome.
Michael Vassar: “Phil: Eliezer has repeatedly said that ems (formerly uploads) are people. Eliezer, can you please clarify this point in a simple direct comment aimed at Phil?”
Huh? No need. Why would you think I’m unaware of that?
I notice that several people replied to my question, Why not colonize America?; yet no one addressed it. I think they fail to see the strength of the analogy. Humans use many more resources than ems or AIs. If you take the resources from the humans and give them to the AI, you will at some point be able to support 100 times as many “equivalent”, equally happy people. Make an argument for not doing that. And don’t, as komponisto did, just say that it’s the right thing to do.
Everybody says that not taking the land from the Native Americans would have been the right thing to do; but nobody wants to give it back.
An argument against universe-tiling would also be welcome.