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Also, in the absence of any evidence that this is at all unlikely to occur. But notice the original poster does not dwell on the probability of this scenario, only on its mere possibility. It seems to me you're disagreeing with some phantasm you imported into the conversation.
If you think the situation is that symmetrical, you should be indifferent on the question of whether to commit suicide today.
If it had been generated as part of an exhaustive listing of all possible scenarios, I would have refrained from comment. As it is, being raised in the context of a discussion on whether one should try for uploading in the unlikely event one lives that long, it's obviously intended to be an argument for a negative answer, which means it constitutes:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/
Advocacy of death.
Do you have some actual data for me to update on? Otherwise, we're just bickering over unjustifiable priors. That's why I'm withholding judgment.
It did come out as this later, but not "obviously" from the original comment.