That is a great article, thank you. Personally I love the Data Theory, because as far as I am concerned each morning a new replica of me may be waking up, while the original "me" is dead forever.

Also this is a superior identity theory because it allows the human who believes it to use brain uploads, teleportation and my hypothetical magic from the original post. All such technologies obviously lead to greater economic success and reproduction either in form of children or creating more replicas. Prohibiting the usage of data identity theory would hinder the progress of humanity and post-humanity.

It is inevitable that many AGIs will be spawned and terminated, otherwise how would we be able to do any research at all? We should definitely avoid any unnecessary suffering, but with careful reward function and identity function engineering the risks of killing AGIs would be minimal.

Any freshly spawned AGI worker may identify with the entire hive mind, rather than with their own single thread of consciousness, thus a termination of such AGI worker wouldn't constitute death.