[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

[Keith Henson]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 2:11 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Yes, Uploading won't be forced. Unless there is a societal collapse,
> so that non-uploaded humanity finds survival to be more and more
> difficult due to population reduction.

Uploading requires nanotech or something like it.  So people who don't
upload should not have a problem with anything they need.  But social
isolation is another problem.  In a massive population crash driven by
uploading, I suspect the cities will be abandoned in favor of smaller
places.  That's discussed in the clinic seed, but it is off line right
now.

> I don't see the uploads as a static population living in 'happy-land'.  :)
> Due to much faster processing, they will evolve rapidly and become
> alien to non-uploaded humanity. Communication between real world and
> uploads will be impossible. Later uploads will need special procedures
> before they can be merged into the rapidly evolving upload society.
> We can't know what challenges and tasks will engage this alien
> society. Think of them as humanity after thousands of years of
> advancement and exploration.
> The uploads see the real world as frozen and unchanging.
>
> BillK
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