On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
* >> Do you have some objection to uploading? * > > * > Not if it works.* *I see no technological reason why it wouldn't work as long as sufficient information is retained, and it will be retained unless the brain enters a turbulent state. But there are non-technological reasons why it might not work.* *> Hopefully, the biological component will be necessary at the beginning > for something, otherwise, why would the SI go to the bother of figuring out > uploading.* *Working in our favor is the fact that in the age of Drexler style Nanotechnology things will either be physically impossible or easy to do and be dirt cheap, nothing will be expensive. Therefore if Mr. Jupiter Brain finds it to be a bother to upload us it won't be a very large bother and; although our value to it must be close to zero it might not be exactly zero even if that value is only nostalgia, after all regardless of how mighty it is, without us it wouldn't exist. And I don't think it's totally unrealistic to hope that Mr. Jupiter Brain has at least a little empathy. I have no use for an injured puppy but if I happen to find one I'd make at least some effort to help it. * *I've started to read Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book and it's possible that he's right and "If anybody builds it everybody dies" but I think it's also possible he's not right. I don't understand how he can be so certain to know how an intelligence vastly greater than his own will behave in this important (to us) circumstance. Perhaps when I finish the book I'll have a better understanding of his reasoning, but I doubt it. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* *>*-* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1MrLaNdge22iaZON8S_gqawuADkd0-zUYdeKXmCMZLBw%40mail.gmail.com.
