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OldWorldRevival t1_j51rjqj wrote

Reply to comment by Mortal-Region in Instead of escaping to virtual realities, what if we just made our reality as good as any virtual reality could be? by [deleted]

Can't wait to delete yourself here and copy yourself over there?

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Mortal-Region t1_j51skou wrote

I'm actually skeptical of uploading. I think what'll actually happen is digital people will come to vastly outnumber and outlive biological people, who will eventually go extinct.

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raishak t1_j525qlb wrote

Agreed as well. What comes out the other side of this will probably not resemble original humans at all, but regardless, whatever intelligent agents are digitized will have a huge advantage over biological agents in nearly all aspects. Be it artificial or some kind of derivative of human flesh scans or individual behavioral modeling.

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Mortal-Region t1_j529gix wrote

I think their biggest advantage is how well-suited they'd be for colonizing other stars. They wouldn't need to find suitable planets -- they'd only need energy from the stars. They could just send out seeds and grow new digital life at the destination. Probably the typical scenario for a galaxy is that an intelligent technological civilization arises on a single planet, and they distribute machine intelligence throughout the galaxy.

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