AngryParsley 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: AngryParsley 02 March 2010 01:36:58PM *  2 points [-]

Basically, yes. If values are different enough between two species/minds/groups/whatever, then both see the other as resources that could be reorganized into more valuable structures.

To borrow an UFAI example: An upload might not hate you, but your atoms could be reorganized into computronium running thousands of upload copies/children.