Khoth comments on Malthusian copying: mass death of unhappy life-loving uploads - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 02 July 2012 04:37PM

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Comment author: gwern 02 July 2012 07:35:15PM *  6 points [-]

Far more efficiently dealt with by some simple cognitive prostheses like RescueTime... What's better, a few machine instructions matching a blocked Web address, or reengineering the architecture of the brain with, at a minimum, operant conditioning? This is actually a good example of how a crude ancestral mechanism like pain is not very adaptive or applicable to upload circumstances!

Comment author: Khoth 02 July 2012 09:22:02PM 1 point [-]

I'll concede that it's not terribly likely, then (with the pascal's wager caveat of it being very bad if it is true (and the anti-caveat that I don't think the upload scenario is stable anyway))