timtyler comments on The Magnitude of His Own Folly - Less Wrong
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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.
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.
But there are any number of failure points and combinations thereof that would be mission-fatal during flight.