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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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.
Note that emulations can enable the creation of a singleton, it doesn't necessarily have to exist in advance.
Yes, but that's only likely if the first uploads are FAI researchers.