That’s an excerpt of Susan Schneider’s new book. There’s a draft in her website for download.
My overall opinion about it is… So what? Any radical solution for the problem of mortality (e.g., body transplant) seems to imply a counterintuitive outcome. I mean, I don’t want to die… but being dead plus having my memories and personality simulated by a Super-AI after my brain’s death seems to me the second-best case scenario.
I assigned this the “Personal Blog” category for now, because mind uploading isn’t a common topic of EA conversation and the relevance of this to existing cause areas isn’t entirely clear. Are there organizations you can point to that are working on this problem, and/or a case someone has made for why uploading is a valuable cause area?
Well, this is Robin Hanson’s vision of the future (ems).
She pictures it as an existential risk related to AI. But I’m ok with the “personal blog” category.