Slowing Moore's Law

Gwern, the main surprise coming out of the post-Summit workshops was that literally everyone wished that uploads could come before AGIs. The problem isn't that high-fidelity uploads are less trustworthy. The problem is that the neuroscience enabling uploads seems extremely liable to enable "neuromorphic" or "neurally inspired" AGIs which have neither a human upbringing, nor high-fidelity human emotions. In other words, the problem with uploading is that it's a difficult technology whose easier prerequisites branch into unFriendly AI. We'd take high-fidelity uploads if we could get them, the problem is we don't see how to get them without getting unFriendly "neuromorphic" AI first.

Lesswrong link with existing discussion: http://lesswrong.com/lw/apm/how_would_you_stop_moores_law/