Will_Pearson comments on Unnatural Categories - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2008 01:00AM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 24 August 2008 10:50:12AM 0 points [-]

I wouldn't say that human is a well defined category, at least how transhumanists think of the future of humans. Poisons that will cause death in a flesher won't have any affect on an upload in a gleisner robot. Unless you think uploads would be the same people but no longer human.