[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Martin Sustrik]

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On 01/01/14 19:10, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> The only thing that's really new here is using Bitcoin instead of
> other currency.  What you're talking about is akin to setting up a
> foundation that invests, gets a return on investment, and spends
> the proceeds as your will dictated.  The Nobel Foundation is one
> famous example of this.

Foundation model doesn't necessarily work, see the example in the
article. In any case, foundation resembles being immortal via your
children. You raise them and they preserve something of you into the
future. Nice, but it's a rather diluted form of immortality.

The article proposes a way to impose your will directly, without human
proxies to interpret your intentions.

Bitcoin gets into the mix, because fiat money, given how the legal
system works, cannot be owned after death.

The follow-up question, of course, is what algorithm is used to decide
how to spend the money. I've deliberately avoided the question. You
may think of uploading. You may think of modeling your personality
using the existing corpus of social data. You may think of many
different ways of doing it.

The point is that however you do it, the resulting entity will be able
to affect the physical world on equal standing with people actually
alive, rather than being just a curiosity to be exhibited in a museum.

Martin
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