[ExI] uploads and mariachi bands

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 13/02/2024 00:37, spike wrote:
> For instance… what if… I upload, and realize I never have experiences
> like one I remember with crystal vision, the way I felt in Feb 2024 at
> Berkeley, listening to a mariachi band musically seduce young ladies
> into situations where a next generation of meat-being is given a chance
> to come into existence?  Regardless of how good that uploaded existence
> is, Imagine I miss that Berkeley mariachi feeling so much, I want to see
>   to it that the feelings I had yesterday are given a chance to be felt
> again, into the future, indefinitely.

Spike, what would prevent you, as an upload, having these experiences?

If you realise you happen to never have any experiences you recall 
having as a biological being, you can arrange to have them again, at 
will, as an upload.

If some mariachi band and a suitable couple haven't also uploaded, or 
have moved on from those behaviours, you could always recreate the 
experiences you were missing in your own mind. I see no reason anyone 
would not be able to have any experiences they wanted to, as an upload. 
Just as we currently have AI systems that you can give a description to, 
and they can create an image, still or moving, of what you've asked for, 
I expect there will be systems that can take a memory and turn it into 
an interactive experience for uploads.

I fully expect that uploads will be able to have any experience any 
un-uploaded person can have, and then some.

Ben
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