[ExI] Human extinction

[hkhenson]

On another list I said.

 > >My best guess is that physical state humans will not exist long
 > >after the singularity--something I can't see holding off even half
 > >way to the end of this century.
 >
 > >Then the question becomes how our intellectual descendants deal with
 > >the problems. I suspect at best humans will have the status of
 > >cats--in some ways an unnerving prospect considering what we do to
 > >cats.

A person responded with a statement that religious objections will 
keep people from uploading.  I said:

I know at least 4 people that if they got their hands on the
technology would upload the lot of the religious folks looking for
the Rapture.  I know it isn't ethical.  Perhaps I should write a
story about a police officer who enters a rapture simulation to offer
a rescue to the people in it.

Story background, the evil dweeb hacker from Perth Amboy saved a copy
of their state vector when they were uploaded.  Their bodies are
preserved.  The simulation runs at 100 times wall clock, so by the
time (a week) the poor cop goes in to tell them they are in a fake
heaven they have been there 2 subjective years.

They are offered:

1) reloading into their bodies with existing memories.
2) termination and reloading of their memories prior to the uploading
into their physical bodies.
3) continuation in their current uploaded environment with memories
that they are in a fake heaven
4) same as 3 but erasing the memory of the cop's visit.
5) same as 3 or 4 but forked with the original body being put back on
the street with no memory of two years in heaven.

Did I miss anything?  What would you do with such an offer?

Heh heh

Keith