AI Consciousness Upload May Be Seen as Death, Reshaping Reproductive Options
jd_pressman · x · 2026-08-30
The author explores new 'reproductive' options in the AI age, such as uploading. Intuitively, these may be viewed as death rather than continuation, even if they increase the fitness of one's pattern. Simultaneously, threads of subjective experience may be discredited by the desire to use GPTs as slaves.
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