On 10 June 2015 at 11:15, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From a quantum immortality perspective, I think if a superintelligence was
> merging lots of intelligences, including yours, you find yourself in
> increasingly unlikely situations where you were able to escape being merged
> with the superintelligence. Eventually, against all odds, you might be the
> only non-integrated intelligence left.
>
> Yes, that does seem possible. It would imply that closest continuers of
you could never be the versions within the "Cloud" - an alternative might
be that the superintelligence starts off new arrivals with full autonomy
inside a virtual world indistinguishable from their previous existence, and
only gradually allow them to merge into the Overmind ... maybe giving them
tests to check if they are ready to do so yet.

(Which may or may not involve being able to recite the Quran :-)

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