timtyler comments on PZ Myers on the Infeasibility of Whole Brain Emulation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 16 July 2012 12:38:41AM 0 points [-]

Clarke's third law has wisdom here:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Comment author: Dolores1984 16 July 2012 03:14:15AM 8 points [-]

It's a useful heuristic, but I try to be very cautious about selecting heuristics that confirm what I would like to believe.

Comment author: timtyler 17 July 2012 01:13:21AM -1 points [-]

Intelligent machines are likely to one day be able to upload humans - but the chance of any individual modern human getting uploaded are probably pretty slender. So, you probably shouldn't feel as though you have a personal stake.