KatjaGrace comments on Superintelligence 8: Cognitive superpowers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: KatjaGrace 09 November 2014 05:52:58AM 0 points [-]

Point being: what you end up with if you go down this road is not a copy of a human mind: It is almost immediately a neuromorphic entity.

People who have thought about this seem to mostly think that a lot of things would change quickly - I suspect any disagreement you have with Bostrom is about whether this creature derived from a human is close enough to a human to be thought of as basically human-like. Note that Bostrom thinks of the space of possible minds as being vast, so even a very weird human-descendent might seem basically human-like.