The day human minds are uploadable to machines is the day the death sentence for humans is passed.
I don't see why you think tribal societies aren't very competitive over hundreds of thousands of years. The strong competition seems obvious to me.
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African tribes do not appear to be affected by same extreme competitiveness as say, South Korean universities. Europeans cooperate in prisoners dilemma more than non-Euros. Do you think Em era will select for more or less cooperation than now? 1/
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This whole conversation is really about the orthogonality thesis. I thought you accepted the thesis, but correct me if I am wrong; I can't find any of your writings on it online. The simple question is, can economic forces strip the universe of stereotypicaly 'human' values?
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Okay, it seems you don't want any future competition when values are plastic and the environment is different from the ancient human forager environment, for fear values might change. Now that actually happened during the farming era; do you dislike how values changed then?
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It's complicated. I'm not opposed to all value changes, but I fear we play a game of chicken where the further we get from the ancestral environment the more likely there will be a discontinuity in values. There are two competing rates, rate of environ change and rate of adaption
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When the rate of environmental change is large compared to adaptation rate, the species will suffer or it will transform (and potentially have very different values). I see the age of Em scenario as a bypassing of the limits on adaptation (through evolution). (cont)
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When we can add/delete genetic/neural-architecture code with the press of a button I don't expect continuity with human values. I think stripping oneself of non-productive components will give a competitive advantage greater than any pressure to remain broadly-human in this env.
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