[ExI] Identity preservation through a security lens

[Adrian Tymes]

Yeah, but there's no aecurity context in The Clinic Seed.  The AI perorming
the uploads and downloads is trustable to do so, aa he (given the
self-identity that AI adopted) has no reason to ever hack the minds, other
than in ways those minds request - even when the AI knows of the dangers a
given requested hack comes with.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 11:18 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought about this and wrote about it in "The Clinic Seed" 20 years
> ago.  A technology able to upload a person should be able to download
> the memories they accumulate while in the uploaded state into their
> physical brain, making uploading bidirectional.  See the story for a
> conceptual description.
>
> Keith
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 10:18 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Trawling through Moltbook, I noticed an angle that I haven't seen
> > discussed much here before.
> >
> > The various aspects of identity continuity through disruptions - mind
> > uploading, the classic teleporter conundrum, and so on - is not merely
> > philosophical, but security.
> >
> > It's not purely "Will this thing, that will be after the event, still
> > be me?"  Instead, "Will this thing, that will be after the event, do
> > the things that I want to do in the way that I want to do them?"
> >
> > The latter seems like a far more concrete and measurable issue - yet,
> > in a sense, it is the same problem.
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