PlaidX comments on The non-painless upload - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PlaidX 16 February 2011 10:34:29PM 0 points [-]

I see your point, but I guess my problem is that I don't see why constructing these tradeoffs is productive in the first place. It just seems like a party game where people ask what you'd do for a million dollars.

Like, in the situation here, with uploading, why does immortality even need to be part of equation? All he's really saying is "intuitively, it doesn't seem like an upload would 'really' be me". What happens to the upload, and what happens to the original, is just a carnival of distractions anyway. We can easily swap them around and see that they have no bearing on the issue.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 16 February 2011 11:40:37PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, as I said earlier, if you can't think of a better way to have the conversations but don't think those conversations are worth having at all, I have nothing to say to that.

Like any conversation, they're interesting to the people they interest, and not to the people they don't... I don't really understand why people talk so much about football, for example.