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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.
This is, I think, an echo of Robin Hanson's 'crack of a future dawn', where hyper-Darwinian pressures to multiply cause the discarding of unuseful mental modules like humor or empathy which take up space.
Where do you get the idea that humor or empathy are not useful mental abiliites?!
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