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

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Comment author: RobinHanson 04 July 2012 12:02:21PM *  2 points [-]

That isn't a realistic choice. If you mean imagine that 1) humanity continues on as it has without ems arriving, or 2) ems arrive as I envision, then we'd be adding trillions of ems with lives worth living onto the billions of humans who would exist anyway with a similar quality of life. That sounds good to me.

Comment author: Khoth 04 July 2012 12:48:29PM 0 points [-]

Thanks, that tells me what I wanted to know.

(FWIW, I didn't mean that last one as a choice, just a comparison of two situations happening at different times, but i don't think that raelly matters)