From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 07:14:21 MDT
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Lee Corbin wrote:
> ... commenting on Eliezer's comments about nonvolitional uploading
> violating Friendliness....
>
> Why in the world? I would deeply hope that it would be so
> considerate! *Everyone* would be better off uploaded (if
> the AI is so nice to do so), whether they realize it or not.
> At *very least* the AI provides you a life indistinguishable
> from what you currently have, but with no chance of halting,
> and probably many fewer red lights on your way to work.
Nonvolitional uploading would violate Extropian principle #6
of self-direction. Some people might prefer to evolve
individually into an Aristoi. It is impossible to do
that if they are constrained within a SysOp/AI.
Life is already meaningless. Life within a Sysop/AI becomes
much more so (for me personally) so I would strongly object
to nonvolitional uploading. I got out of one womb, I'm not
about to climb back into one without devoting a lot of thought
to whether that is the most attractive alternative.
Robert
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