I think I basically agree with everything here, but probably less confidently for you, such that I would have a pretty large bias against destructive whole brain emulation, with the biggest crux being how anthropics works over computations.
You say that there’s no XML tag specifying whether some object is “really me” or not, but a lighter version of that—a numerical amplitude tag specifying how “real” a computation is—is the best interpretation we have for how quantum mechanics works. Even though all parts of me in the wavefunction are continuations of the same computation of “me” I experience being some of them at a much higher rate than others. There are definitely many benign versions of this that don’t affect uploading, but I’m not confident enough yet to bet my life on the benign version being true.
I think I basically agree with everything here, but probably less confidently for you, such that I would have a pretty large bias against destructive whole brain emulation, with the biggest crux being how anthropics works over computations.
You say that there’s no XML tag specifying whether some object is “really me” or not, but a lighter version of that—a numerical amplitude tag specifying how “real” a computation is—is the best interpretation we have for how quantum mechanics works. Even though all parts of me in the wavefunction are continuations of the same computation of “me” I experience being some of them at a much higher rate than others. There are definitely many benign versions of this that don’t affect uploading, but I’m not confident enough yet to bet my life on the benign version being true.