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mrobtoday at 9:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

Crazy that people are downvoting this. Copying a consciousness is about the most extreme violation of bodily autonomy possible. Certainly it should be banned. It's worse than e.g. building nuclear weapons, because there's no possible non-evil use for it. It's far worse than cloning humans because cloning only works on non-conscious embryos.


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int_19htoday at 11:28 AM

Violation of whose bodily autonomy? If I consent to having my consciousness copied, then my autonomy isn't violated. Nor is that of the copy, since it's in exactly the same mental state initially.

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philipswoodtoday at 10:15 AM

It might be one of the only reasonable-seeming ways to not die.

I can see the appeal.