[extropy-chat] when will computers improve?

Reason reason at exratio.com
Tue Dec 30 13:09:45 UTC 2003



> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]On Behalf Of Major

> "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.

The exoself was more of a platform or application, with the polis software
being the operating system. The sanctity of the exoself from external
modification was a function of the polis software, for example.

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