First, I believe the creation of em-hell is worse than human extinction. Second, I have no idea how neurologically different sociopaths are.
Who would want to be like that anyway, when the alternative is to live in a digitally created state of bliss?
At least part of me prefers friendship with real people to being wireheaded into pure bliss. Another part of me values winning zero-sum games against real people. Although no part of me values torturing innocent people, I can certainly understand why a monster-em would prefer ruling over em-hell to being wireheaded.
Our monster-em could perhaps endorse this:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/lb/not_for_the_sake_of_happiness_alone/
agree with the point of em-hell. But I don't think it's very likely because I think that you could screen against sociopaths being uploaded.
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Who would want to be like that anyway, when the alternative is to live in a digitally created state of bliss? You could still be part of what you consider to be "reality", so that you wouldn't feel bad if you were in a "fake" virtual reality.
You could still have real friends. What zero-sum games do you have in mind? Surely anything you find enjoyable now pales in comparison to wha...
If you were a utilitarian, then why would you want to risk creating an AGI that had the potential to be an existential risk, when you could eliminate all suffering with the advent of WBE (whole brain emulation) and hence virtual reality (or digital alteration of your source code) and hence utopia? Wouldn't you want to try to prevent AI research and just promote WBE research? Or is it that AGI is more likely to come before WBE and so we should focus our efforts on making sure that the AGI is friendly? Or maybe uploading isn't possible for technological or philosophical reasons (substrate dependence)?
Is there a link to a discussion on this that I'm missing out on?