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D_Malik comments on Instrumental Rationality Questions Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: D_Malik 24 August 2015 02:17:07PM 1 point [-]

You don't need to reconstruct all the neurons and synapses, though. If something behaves almost exactly as I would behave, I'd say that thing is me. 20 years of screenshots 8 hours a day is around 14% of a waking lifetime, which seems like enough to pick out from mindspace a mind that behaves very similarly to mine.

Comment author: Lumifer 24 August 2015 02:44:41PM 5 points [-]

a mind that behaves very similarly to mine

A mind that behaves very similarly to yours while typing at a a computer screen.

Put that mind in a pub and I doubt it will perform well.

Comment author: estimator 24 August 2015 02:44:10PM 0 points [-]

Well, I agree, that would help FAI build people similar to you. But why do you want FAI to do that?

And what copying precision is OK for you? Would just making a clone based in your DNA suffice? Maybe, you don't even have to bother with all these screenshots and photos.