This shows a blind spot in my thinking (or in other people’s?) - I’ve always passively assumed we’d end up turning the whole universe into computronium and living entirely as uploads anyway, so I never would have thought “hey, let’s separate the program from the implementation”—I only ever have thought about the program (what virtual world I actually want to get instantiated) and never about the implementation to begin with—nor did I ever consider that people might have values over the state of the physical world itself, rather than over their own subjective experience. (Well, it’s obvious bioconservatives would, but I don’t expect them to win the universe.)
This shows a blind spot in my thinking (or in other people’s?) - I’ve always passively assumed we’d end up turning the whole universe into computronium and living entirely as uploads anyway, so I never would have thought “hey, let’s separate the program from the implementation”—I only ever have thought about the program (what virtual world I actually want to get instantiated) and never about the implementation to begin with—nor did I ever consider that people might have values over the state of the physical world itself, rather than over their own subjective experience. (Well, it’s obvious bioconservatives would, but I don’t expect them to win the universe.)