[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 13/10/2024 20:41, Keith Hensen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:18 AM efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>  wrote:
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>> Why do you think hostility will be a problem when it comes to uploading
>> as long as it is a voluntary procedure that will not affect anyone else?
> It depends.  If a high fraction of the population uploads, there will
> be a social collapse.  At some point, the social system fails and the
> remaining people will move away from ghost towns.

One thing nobody seems to consider is the possibility of uploading into 
a new artificial brain, in control of a synthetic body, instead of into 
a large, shared computing system. That way, there would still be 
physical people around in the physical world. They'd have the advantages 
of both situations, seeing as their new brains should be easily capable 
of connecting to computer systems and experiencing virtual worlds as 
well as the real world. Their 'ecological footprint' would probably be 
smaller than biological humans as well.

I could see 'uploading to an android' being a popular option, and a lot 
less scary for some people than uploading to a server. It would also 
(potentially) solve the tricky problem of who owns and controls the 
hardware that your mind runs on.

Ben
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