Um. Shouldn't we be thinking "how will we get the FAI to conclude that replacing people with software is not harmless" not "If the FAI concludes that this is harmless..."

A lot of people here think that the quick assumption that unusual substrate changes necessarily imply death isn't well-founded. Arguing with the assumption that it is obviously true will not be helpful.

There should be a good single post or wiki page to like to about this debate (it also comes up constantly in cryonics discussions), but I don't think there is one.