[extropy-chat] when will computers improve?

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"Kevin Freels" <kevinfreels at hotmail.com> writes:

> As far as uploading and Windows are concerned, how would an operating system
> for an upload work? Would "you" be the OS, would the OS run "you", or would
> we do away with the entire concept of an OS altogether?

"you" would the "application", not the "OS"; though I suspect that the
OS would probably be pretty minimal.

I recommend most the fiction of Greg Egan in this regard. His uploads
have a system called the "exoself" which is kind of a dedicated OS for
uploads which takes care of things like save&restore and modification
in those scenarios where the  uploads make conscious decisions to
change themselves.

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