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DanArmak comments on Malthusian copying: mass death of unhappy life-loving uploads - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 02 July 2012 10:24:16PM *  4 points [-]

That's an explicit assumption he makes: that even the future ems will fail to design AIs or highly-modifed or nonhuman ems that will outcompete regular human ems. This seems to me very unlikely, but it's the premise of the discussion, as you correctly note.

Edit: didn't mean to imply Hanson makes this assumption without arguing for it and justifying it. I'm pretty sure he's posted about it.