[ExI] after upload, what?

[Samantha]

I have often said that slightly evolved apes with godlike powers would 
not be my idea of a good time!  Thank the worst of the old Greek or 
Norse Gods multiplied by millions if not billions of godlings.

Perhaps it is from having been a hippie in my youth but I think that not 
only realizing and embracing radical Abundance and other potentials but 
doing so gracefully and well will require a major shift in ad upgrade in 
consciousness and wisdom.      In other words there is a lot more to 
massively human positive Singularity than just the technology and a bit 
of happy geeking out.

- samantha

On 2/9/24 09:43, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> I am assuming that an uploaded person can change the programming - the 
> parameters.  So how can that work?
>
> Suppose one could change the enjoyment of chocolate to the most 
> intense pleasure possible - like dumping a ton of dopamine into a 
> brain.  What would happen?  A biological body would adapt and inhibit 
> extreme reactions and probably develop an addiction and tolerance.  
> Not in an upload. You could presumably make every pleasure as intense 
> as possible.
>
> If you read the news and there was a disaster you could turn off any 
> negative emotions and just note that news cognitively - no empathy at 
> all. No feeling bad.
>
> Is that what people want?  bill w
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