[ExI] shining example and COVID-19 (John Clark)

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:51 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> What about what a person is without augmentations?  If you get uploaded
> you are just a long string of code, right?  So you can be anything you want
> to be - just change the code.  Now everyone is the same - the best code
> can do.  What is the point of that?  You are just a computer that is no
> better and no worse than any other computer.  There is nothing
> distinctive about you that cannot be duplicated by some one else.   bill w
>

### Well, there is copyright. Also, there are millions of coders today who
write billions of lines of code to satisfy various needs. Similarly, in the
future there will be enough room for billions of differently specialized
uploads.

Rafał
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