[ExI] after upload, what?

[Travis Porco]

>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

Forgive me for delurking, but perhaps the time has come to ask *how*
to do an upload or upload-like activity right now, today, with
existing technology...extracting enough memory and identity to
generate an authorized continuing agent for yourself, without being
distracted by worries about whether it is "really you" and so forth.
As I follow these discussions I find the philosophical worries merely
lead to inaction, and in some cases, contain elements dismissive of
the value of lives.

--tcp