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steven0461 comments on Charles Stross: Three arguments against the singularity - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: steven0461 22 June 2011 08:00:00PM *  3 points [-]

I like how he goes from:

Uploading ... is not obviously impossible unless you are a crude mind/body dualist.

to:

But even if mind uploading is possible

To be sure, it continues as an "if ... and ...", but way to suggest two arguments where you've made just one.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 October 2011 07:39:55PM 0 points [-]

Grammatically, what he's saying is "but that in-principle possibility aside..."