[ExI] Designated non-uploader was The atoms red herring.

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:00 AM,  Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

I have a thought.  Alan, would you consider being the designated
non-uploader like a designated non drinking driver?

When everyone else has uploaded, you occasionally check the
blinken-blinken lights on the control panel for the computronium
everyone else has uploaded into.  If the blinken-blinken lights quit
blinken, your task is to push the reset button and save the entire
uploaded world.

While this is partly humor, I agree that one way uploading is
personally distasteful.  But if all steps were fully reversible, which
should be no harder, then most of my objections go away.

Also, I have no idea if there is any organization in the transhumanist
movement that could make such an appointment.  But since I have been
appointed "sort of an ur-transhumanist" by RU Sirius
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/05/a-reprint-of-an-interview-with-keith-henson-by-ru-sirius-2/
there is no reason I could not appoint you the designated non-uploader
if you want the title.

Keith


>
> Very well said. Everyone should be free to make their own choices as
> long as they don't practically prevent others from doing the same.
>
> That is why I find your obsessive rants against uploading very boring,
> and I usually don't read them because they are delivered directly to
> the spam folder. You don't want to upload? Fine, then don't, and give
> us a break. You may also have noticed that the uploading option is not
> exactly behind the corner, and that is why find your obsessive rants
> even more boring.
>
> OK, now please feel free to continue posting, and I will feel free to
> continue filtering your posts to the spam folder where they belong.
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>> Furthermore, practicality is my business, not yours. I will specify what
>> is practical, and what is not based on nothing other than personal fiat.
>> I do not request or require you to do a single damn thing for me. I
>> don't want a single red cent out of you. Seriously, you need to
>> re-examine your thinking. What does the concept of practicality have to
>> do with SOMEONE ELSE'S choices?
>
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