[MURG] Question about AI and Mind Upload

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:54:19AM +0800, Major wrote:

> I don't think the very existence of human-grade AIs would be so
> horrible that people would stop wanting to live forever; are you

No, the existance of human-grade AI is not horrible per se. It just marks a
watershed event, resulting in a self-enhancement runaway. Really quick
runaway.

> saying that human-grade AIs would somehow *prevent* people from
> uploading?

If everyone's dead due to side effects (basically, just winding up at the
receiving end of the industrial pollution thing) there will be clearly no
uploads.

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