Nick_Tarleton comments on Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 01 March 2010 05:12:45AM 9 points [-]

In a world of uploads which contains some that do want to copy themselves, selection obviously favors the replicators, with tragic results absent a singleton.

Comment author: CarlShulman 01 March 2010 12:47:01PM 2 points [-]

Note that emulations can enable the creation of a singleton, it doesn't necessarily have to exist in advance.

Comment author: AngryParsley 02 March 2010 02:32:20AM 2 points [-]

Yes, but that's only likely if the first uploads are FAI researchers.