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TheOtherDave comments on Continuity in Uploading - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 January 2014 12:23:04AM 0 points [-]

Fair enough. Sure, if you happen to have both the desire to not die and the independent desire to stop living in your meat body once you've been uploaded, then a destructive upload gives you more of what you want than a nondestructive one.