I think the majority of humans probably won’t want to be uploads, leave the solar system permanently, etc. Maybe this is where we disagree? I don’t really think there’s going to be a thing that most people care about more.
Sorry, that’s literally what I am saying. If many people don’t want to leave the solar system, and don’t want to be uploads, then using the matter and energy available in the solar system effectively is a decision with a huge stake to many people.
I think if everyone or really almost everyone would want to be an upload, I think this would make it more likely that we should keep the sun intact, because then the sun could belong to just the few humans who don’t have better alternatives in other solar systems. But if there is anything above 10% of humanity who don’t want to be uploaded, or go on long-distance spaceship journeys in their biological bodies, then you better make sure you make the solar system great for this substantial fraction of humanity, and I think that will likely involve disassembling the sun.
I agree with you that many people don’t want to be uploads, etc. I disagree that the majority of people who don’t want to be uploads have attachments to the specific celestial bodies in our solar system. I think they just want to have a good life in their biological bodies, doing nice human things. Those goals would be non-trivially hampered if they couldn’t disassemble the sun. That’s like 99.9% of the energy and matter by which they could achieve those goals, and while I do think this subset of the population will be selected for less scope-sensitivity, I think there will be enough scope-sensitivity to make leaving the sun intact a bad choice.
(To be clear, I disagree that the majority of humanity would not want to be uploads over the course of multiple generations, but it seems plausible to me that like 10%-20% of humanity don’t want to be uploads, even over multiple generations)
Uploads have 10,000x life expectancy due to running faster, regardless of what global circumstance eventually destroys them (I’m expecting distributed backups for biological humans as well, but by definition they remain much slower).
I think the majority of humans probably won’t want to be uploads, leave the solar system permanently, etc. Maybe this is where we disagree? I don’t really think there’s going to be a thing that most people care about more.
Sorry, that’s literally what I am saying. If many people don’t want to leave the solar system, and don’t want to be uploads, then using the matter and energy available in the solar system effectively is a decision with a huge stake to many people.
I think if everyone or really almost everyone would want to be an upload, I think this would make it more likely that we should keep the sun intact, because then the sun could belong to just the few humans who don’t have better alternatives in other solar systems. But if there is anything above 10% of humanity who don’t want to be uploaded, or go on long-distance spaceship journeys in their biological bodies, then you better make sure you make the solar system great for this substantial fraction of humanity, and I think that will likely involve disassembling the sun.
I agree with you that many people don’t want to be uploads, etc. I disagree that the majority of people who don’t want to be uploads have attachments to the specific celestial bodies in our solar system. I think they just want to have a good life in their biological bodies, doing nice human things. Those goals would be non-trivially hampered if they couldn’t disassemble the sun. That’s like 99.9% of the energy and matter by which they could achieve those goals, and while I do think this subset of the population will be selected for less scope-sensitivity, I think there will be enough scope-sensitivity to make leaving the sun intact a bad choice.
(To be clear, I disagree that the majority of humanity would not want to be uploads over the course of multiple generations, but it seems plausible to me that like 10%-20% of humanity don’t want to be uploads, even over multiple generations)
Cool. I misinterpreted your previous comment and think we’re basically on the same page.
Uploads have 10,000x life expectancy due to running faster, regardless of what global circumstance eventually destroys them (I’m expecting distributed backups for biological humans as well, but by definition they remain much slower).