If we could do this wouldn't we spin up minds-in-machines to do all sorts of cognitive tasks on demand and shut them off when the task is done (or they abandon their task) like a virtual machine.

Imagine making a copy of someone like Fabrice Bellard [1] and spinning up 100 of them to write your flappy bird clone for you and then shutting them off.

Would this be a terrible crime, or a paradise? This is an idea known as Hansons "ems" [2].

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

- https://ideas.ted.com/are-you-ready-for-the-impending-age-of...