wizard comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bound_up 22 November 2015 01:09:40AM 3 points [-]

But's it's precisely this reference to "my meatbody" and "my computer body" or whatever that confuses me. When you upload, a new consciousness is created, right? You don't have two bodies, you just have a super-doppleganger. He can suffer while I don't, and vice versa. And he can die, and I'll go on living. And I can still die just as much as before, while the other goes on living. I don't understand what about this situation would make me okay with dying.

So I could understand it as valuable to someone for other reasons, but I don't understand its presentation as a life extension technology.

Comment author: wizard 22 November 2015 02:00:10AM 1 point [-]

My understanding is that LWers do not believe in a permanent consciousness.

  • A teleporter makes a clone of you with identical brain patterns: did it get a new consciousness, how do you tell your consciousness didn't go to the clone, where does the consciousness lies, is it real, etc.
  • It's not real, therefore the clone is literally you.

Either that or we're dying every second.