timtyler comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 05 June 2012 10:46:42PM *  -1 points [-]

Well, there are a thousand different ways to lose, but I lable any future containing "six billion corpses" as a losing one.

You don't think humanity would ever willingly go for destructive uploading?

I don't think win/lose is too useful here. The idea that there are many ways to lose is like saying that most arrangements of a 747's components don't fly. True - but not too relevant when planning a flight.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 June 2012 10:33:39AM 3 points [-]

You don't think humanity would ever willingly go for destructive uploading?

Understand my meaning, do not cleave my words. I mean of course "six billion mind-state annihilations," and I highly doubt you were not able to think of that interprentation.

I don't think win/lose is too useful here. The idea that there are many ways to lose is like saying that most arrangements of a 747's components don't fly. True - but not too relevant when planning a flight.

But there are any number of failure points and combinations thereof that would be mission-fatal during flight.