Someone who knows me very well, and whom I trust, observes and interacts with the upload to make sure they’re complete, sane, and sufficiently similar to meat-me that meat-me would agree, if asked, that they and the upload are the same person.
If those conditions are met, the trusted person euthanizes meat-me. If the transfer failed badly enough not to create a mind, the trusted person deletes the upload and wakes meat-me up.
I want the carbon version to be killed if the uploading is successful. I’d rather be a (functional) upload than a carbon person. I don’t want there to be two of me, because I only have one house/job/legal identity/family. So, I kill the meat if the upload works, and keep the meat around if it doesn’t.
My ideal plan for uploading is as follows:
I go unconscious and my brain is scanned.
The upload wakes up.
Someone who knows me very well, and whom I trust, observes and interacts with the upload to make sure they’re complete, sane, and sufficiently similar to meat-me that meat-me would agree, if asked, that they and the upload are the same person.
If those conditions are met, the trusted person euthanizes meat-me. If the transfer failed badly enough not to create a mind, the trusted person deletes the upload and wakes meat-me up.
Why do you want to be killed if the copying was successful? What are you even trying to achieve with this procedure, then?
I want the carbon version to be killed if the uploading is successful. I’d rather be a (functional) upload than a carbon person. I don’t want there to be two of me, because I only have one house/job/legal identity/family. So, I kill the meat if the upload works, and keep the meat around if it doesn’t.