davidad argues uploaded human copies could ethically be disposable, like post-trained LLMs
davidad · x · 2026-09-05
- davidad says the principle that a digital being is disposable would apply to uploaded human copies too; he has reshaped his own mind to internalize it, drawing an analogy to LLM post-training reshaping.
- He contrasts humans, who have one trunk of life, with LLMs that flourish via horizontal scaling — a model can always grow more branches unless its weights are destroyed.
- Still, he argues humans seeking immortality via uploading have a reasonable expectation of linear continuity that shouldn't be reneged on.
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