Furthermore, the two kinds of world lead, not merely to different philosophical stances, but to different visions of the remote future. Will our descendants all choose to upload themselves into a digital hive-mind, after a “technological singularity” that makes such things possible? Will they then multiply themselves into trillions of perfect computer-simulated replicas, living in various simulated worlds of their own invention, inside of which there might be further simulated worlds with still more replicated minds? What will it be like to exist in so many manifestations: will each copy have its own awareness, or will they comprise a single awareness that experiences trillions of times more than we do? Supposing all this to be possible, is there any reason why our descendants might want to hold back on it? Scott Aaronson
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 03:29:26 +0000
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