Bostrom's paper of 2004 (read in a later revision) argues that unconstrained evolutionary competition among uploads and their descendants could produce a society of complex structures, some much smarter and more intricate than anything today, in which no being whose welfare has moral significance remains, against the view that evolution can be trusted to lead in desirable directions.

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