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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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If you were an upload, would you make copies of yourself? Where's the fun in that? The only reason I could see doing it is if I wanted to amass knowledge or do a lot of tasks... and if I did that, I'd want the copies to get merged back into a single "me" so I would have the knowledge and experiences. (Okay, and maybe some backups would be good to have around). But why worry about how many copies you could make? That sounds suspiciously Clippy-like to me.
In any case, I think we'd be more likely to be screwed over by uploads' human qualities and biases, than by a hypothetical desire to become less human.
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.