"2) AI-based mindware technology able to reconstruct individual mindfiles
by analyzing<br>the information in their aggregate Gmail accounts and
other available information, with<br>sufficient accuracy for mind uploading
via detailed personality reconstruction, is available."<br><br>There is much reason to believe this is beyond the realm of plausibility. Not as in, "we<br>don't have the AI for it today", but as in, "the information to do this simply isn't there."<br>
<br>Does this record your day to day lives? Not really. (If you sincerely disagree, chronicle<br>how you spend each hour of a given day, and then honestly look at your outbox and see<br>how much of that is even mentioned. Deliberately rigging the system, like doing a diary via<br>
email for just that one day, doesn't count: this needs to be a representative sample of most<br>of your days.)<br><br>Does this record your experiences in offline conversations, or most of your pre-email life?<br>Again, no. Certain details might come up; most of it won't. Further, it'll be a subset of<br>
what you remember, because you have to have remembered it at some point to have<br>mentioned it in email. (While you may forget something that email will remember, even if<br>you spend the majority of your life with GMail, the amount that you know and it has never<br>
seen will remain substantial.)<br>
<br>This is the kind of thing a critic of the Extropians can latch onto, to dismiss the entire<br>movement as "obviously woowoo pseudoscience bunk".<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Giulio Prisco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com" target="_blank">giulio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/09/mind-uploading-via-gmail.html" target="_blank">http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/09/mind-uploading-via-gmail.html</a><br>
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