Vulture comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Yvain 11 October 2014 06:39AM

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Comment author: Vulture 15 October 2014 07:35:36PM 0 points [-]

death = permanently not conscious; if you create a clone or a simulation that is not a direct upload, it doesn't count as 'still living'

I understand that it's part of the framing of the question, but I still think that a lot of people would take issue with this part.

Comment author: MathieuRoy 16 October 2014 02:36:19AM 0 points [-]

Is it because a lot of people think that continuing to live as a clone or a simulation is just as good as continuing to live as the original? If so, then I don't mind rephrasing what I mean by death. The important point is that I don't mean the death of the body, but rather the death of the mind.