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 :-) -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.