The whole “abrupt destructive upload” thing is going to be a hard no for at least a lot of people, even if they buy into “it’s just as good to be simulated”… which I suspect most people would not and could not easily be convinced to.
Celestia wont’ like that. It costs a lot, and, worse, it makes her access to your values imperfect, so she can’t satisfy them absolutely optimally. Which is presumably why she never offers it to anybody in the story.
Even without an upload, however, she does understand you well enough to manipulate you and modify your values. She won’t let herself edit your mind directly, but she’s more than happy to feed you whatever stimuli are necessary to convince you to change your values, or perhaps to shift to a different attractor within your dynamic value trajectory, and take that upload.
She can apparently do that while still keeping your values satisfied enough at each moment that she doesn’t find herself compelled to stop. She makes a lot of people’s lives outside of Equestria suck in order to get them uploaded, but that doesn’t seem to be enough of a violation of their values to stop her. She constantly manipulates people in ways humans wouldn’t tolerate other humans doing.
She apparently manages to suck in literally everybody in the world except for one guy (or maybe him and a small handful of others who died before him). And I’m sure that many of the people who ended up valuing being uploaded wouldn’t have approved of the manipulation before she started in on them.
How do you patch that out of her? I mean, I don’t know how to build her to begin with, but it doesn’t seem like a small patch.
The whole “abrupt destructive upload” thing is going to be a hard no for at least a lot of people, even if they buy into “it’s just as good to be simulated”… which I suspect most people would not and could not easily be convinced to.
That is easily patched via full-dive VR. You can keep your biological body. No upload be necessary.
Celestia wont’ like that. It costs a lot, and, worse, it makes her access to your values imperfect, so she can’t satisfy them absolutely optimally. Which is presumably why she never offers it to anybody in the story.
Even without an upload, however, she does understand you well enough to manipulate you and modify your values. She won’t let herself edit your mind directly, but she’s more than happy to feed you whatever stimuli are necessary to convince you to change your values, or perhaps to shift to a different attractor within your dynamic value trajectory, and take that upload.
She can apparently do that while still keeping your values satisfied enough at each moment that she doesn’t find herself compelled to stop. She makes a lot of people’s lives outside of Equestria suck in order to get them uploaded, but that doesn’t seem to be enough of a violation of their values to stop her. She constantly manipulates people in ways humans wouldn’t tolerate other humans doing.
She apparently manages to suck in literally everybody in the world except for one guy (or maybe him and a small handful of others who died before him). And I’m sure that many of the people who ended up valuing being uploaded wouldn’t have approved of the manipulation before she started in on them.
How do you patch that out of her? I mean, I don’t know how to build her to begin with, but it doesn’t seem like a small patch.