[ExI] upload, download, all around the townload

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 6:02 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> How much thought has been given to operating systems for fog?
> I can't see controlling foglets directly with my mind!
>

I can.  My patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US6487454B1/en was not
written primarily for uploaded architecture, but can suggest the start of a
fog OS.  The operating principle is that you envision the result, and let
the foglets handle how to pull it off, especially for any shapes where they
already know how.  (Guidance may be needed for substantially new shapes.)

The division of our brains into lobes presumably limits long-range
> neuronal links, and I wonder whether that limitation helps us.
> Uploading into a "flat space", in which such speedbumps are erased, is
> one way to make a mind not fit into the old mold.
>

Then upload into multiple connected flat spaces to preserve such limits, at
least at first while the potential for downloading is still desired.
Optimizing for what one has become (into a single flat space) can come
later, when (and, in some cases, if ever) one is willing to let go of the
past in this manner.

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