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16 Post author: shminux 26 August 2014 06:55PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 August 2014 10:30:08PM 1 point [-]

So Scott meant to argue against "the future should involve trillions of uploads" rather than "the future will involve trillions of uploads"?

Comment author: shminux 27 August 2014 11:03:40PM *  0 points [-]

He suggests that all those uploads might not be conscious if they are run on a quantum computer reversibly (or have some other "clean digital abstraction layer"). He states that this is a huge speculation, but it is still an alternative not usually considered by the orthodox reductionists.