While you were sleeping last night, I uploaded you into a simulation experientially identical to the simulation you were in yesterday... did you notice? ;D
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Alan Grimes via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt Mahoney via AGI wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Samantha Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I said "IF my being was dependent on computation..." How does that have >>> anything at all to do with continuity of consciousness which seems to be the >>> normal issue around uploading? >> Your consciousness is interrupted every night. It doesn't seem to >> bother most people, even though it is equivalent to dying every night >> and then a copy of you is made in the morning with (almost) all of >> your memories copied. >> >> The issue with uploading is you see people go in for a procedure where >> they come out younger, stronger, happier, and smarter. They all claim >> to otherwise be the same person as before. How would you know? > > =\ > > I'm sick of all this uploading discussion. I subscribed to this list > many years ago in order to discuss AGI. > > The entire point of AGI is the ability to pursue transhumanism, on your > own, according to your own actual desires, without needing to deal with > the goddamned uploaders every fucking day. =( > > Uploaders, including my evil roommate, are so damaged that they simply > cannot contemplate anything else. That is why I need AGI so I can work > out my own technology for self-enhancement without needing to explain > shit to flatheads. > > -- > IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. > > Powers are not rights. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
