paper-machine comments on "Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say No!", Nick Agar - Less Wrong

4 Post author: gwern 02 December 2011 09:42PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 December 2011 08:12:32AM 0 points [-]

If you think the situation is that symmetrical, you should be indifferent on the question of whether to commit suicide today.

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.

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

It did come out as this later, but not "obviously" from the original comment.