If you would balk at killing a million people with a nuclear weapon, you should balk at this.
The main problem with death is that valuable things get lost.
Once people are digital, this problem tends to go away—since you can relatively easily scan their brains—and preserve anything of genuine value.
In summary, I don’t see why this issue would be much of a problem.
The AI has scanned you and decided that your expert knowledge of Scandinavian Baseball scores is genuinely valuable… but nothing else is. It erases you and keeps the scores on file somewhere. Are you ok with this?
The main problem with death is that valuable things get lost.
Once people are digital, this problem tends to go away—since you can relatively easily scan their brains—and preserve anything of genuine value.
In summary, I don’t see why this issue would be much of a problem.
The AI has scanned you and decided that your expert knowledge of Scandinavian Baseball scores is genuinely valuable… but nothing else is. It erases you and keeps the scores on file somewhere. Are you ok with this?