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RobinHanson's avatar

Yes, I'm usually talking about ems making copies of themselves. Destructive scans would be feasible first, and I expect enough such scans to be made to fill an em economy. So the arrival of non-destructive scans later becomes a modest effect.

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Anders Sandberg's avatar

When Robin talks about the copies, I always assume he talks about the people already existing as ems. When we have discussed initial scenarios, he has always been open for the destructive scanning ones - for his scenario to work, there just has to be *some* people who want to copy themselves.

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