[ExI] immortal

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 01/08/2025 16:13, bill w wrote:
> I presume that an uploaded person needs electricity to function.  When the assets used to create the upload and provide energy eventually run out, then what?  How does the upload create assets?  That's my question.   bill w

How did those assets get created in the first place?

However that was, an upload will almost certainly be in a better 
position to create more of them than the original biological person was.

I gave a small, limited and fairly trivial example with my experience of 
Second Life. I made a decent living in there, and used my in-game money 
to buy things like clothes and objects that other people produced to 
sell. If needed, I could have used it to pay for electricity to keep my 
computer running, or my internet connection. And that was without my 
avatars being able to act in the real world. Creating the needed assets 
shouldn't be any harder for an upload than for a biological person, and 
could be easier.

There seems to be a perception that uploading would be some kind of 
end-point to a person's existence, that things will remain static from 
then on, with the upload being unable to contribute to society, to 
generate value, earn money, etc. That all they could do would be to 
entertain themselves, confined to their virtual environment, until the 
money runs out.

I see it completely differently. Uploading would be a beginning, not an 
end. An amazing new opportunity to launch into a whole new existence, 
with unlimited opportunities ahead. Imagine being reborn as a baby, but 
with all the memories of your life to date. Then imagine that all the 
limitations of being a biological baby, including the time it takes to 
become an independent adult, were removed. Who wouldn't jump at a chance 
like that?

-- 
Ben