[ExI] after upload, what?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 8:22 PM Travis Porco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I'm more looking for
> "good enough, right now". I'd like to see as much of the 'narrative
> self' preserved, in any format, using
> any substrate, with a hope of further growth or regrowth later. What
> are the limits on the "minimalist" side?
>

Minimalist with hope of regrowth back to the full self?  Right now, that's
just cryonics.  Nothing less expensive than that gives something that
future technology can theoretically build on (short of time travel to
observe and/or extract from you while you were still alive).

Minimalist without that hope?  Let someone else tell your story.  It's not
just free, but people will do that anyway.  It's what a lot of people
settle for, when they speak of "immortality", but I say it doesn't deserve
that label.

I
> suspect that the insect connectome work will lead someone in
> the right direction.
>

So do I.  Probably the best hope for someone about to die today, is to get
frozen with the best preservation affordable on the budget available, in
the hopes that future technology extending from this research will
eventually make restoration from said frozen archive possible - and that
whoever maintains the archive will follow through on their ancestors'
promise to restore you once it becomes possible.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20240326/aa8cb3fa/attachment.htm>