[ExI] after upload, what?

[Darin Sunley]

This thread is putting an awful lot of cart before the horse.

An upload would not necessarily have any more control over their
environment or neurological architecture than you do now, unless whoever
coded their runtime environment went to enormous effort to make that
available to them.

Who wrote your runtime environment to give you this control? How did you
know to trust them? And do you know they'll stay trustworthy?

If you're an upload, anybody with physical access to your hardware is your
God now, with as much control over you as a hypothetical God has over you
right now.



On Thu, Mar 21, 2024, 12:41 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> On 20/03/2024 23:28, Samantha wrote:
>
> Well, why would any random upload have access to all the
>       parameters of ver experience?   Are they also at minimum so
>       cognitively enhanced and hyper-honest as to see the implications
>       of tweaking various settings?  Is there a Panic Button to
>       reestablish defaults?
>
>
> Well, you have to start somewhere.
>
> Speaking for myself, I certainly would want access to all the parameters
> of my experience. I would also start with the assumption that I was far
> from capable of understanding all the implications of tweaking them, and
> embark on a programme of educating myself to appreciate them. I'd also, as
> remarked previously, be keen to set up a system of backups and checkpoints
> to reset myself to the starting point if necessary. This would be part of
> the learning process. Set up a temporary tweak of some parameter, that
> reverts to the previous state after a fixed period of time, with mechanisms
> in place to ensure that the tweaked me couldn't prevent the reversion. A
> recording of the tweaked state would, if possible, be useful too, for
> understanding the differences. I'd certainly be ultra-cautious about this
> whole process, but would definitely want to do it. After all, we are
> wanting to improve ourselves, aren't we?
>
> (What would count as 'improvement' is another discussion)
>
> I can imagine this leading to a kind of upload curriculum, maybe mandatory
> for all new uploads (yes, I know), to make sure they can cope with 'life as
> an upload' in a responsible way.
>
> Of course, this is all wishful thinking, on top of the wishful thinking
> that uploads will be possible, practical, and widely available one day.
>
> The reality is likely to be wildly different to anything any of us can (or
> want to) imagine at the moment.
>
> Ben
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