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The Meaning of Life in the Metaverse (with David Chalmers)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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Y Science Transforms Philosophical Questions

i wonder if things like the microbium are a part of our identity in some meaningful sense, what kind of implication does that have towards this idea of being able to upload ourselves? There's going to be a very large philosophical debate about whether the a i systems we're building are actually consciousness. So that philosophical debate will become probably an intense practical debate. Or another question is just the question of uploading ourselves to ai systems ourselves. Is that something that we should do? One philosophical view is, ah, if we do that, thate'll be a form of potential immortality and survival. Another view is, how, if you upload yourself, that's not you, you've just

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