<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Martin Sustrik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustrik@250bpm.com" target="_blank">sustrik@250bpm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Foundation model doesn't necessarily work, see the example in the<br>
article. In any case, foundation resembles being immortal via your<br>
children. You raise them and they preserve something of you into the<br>
future. Nice, but it's a rather diluted form of immortality.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What you propose is the same.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The article proposes a way to impose your will directly, without human<br>
proxies to interpret your intentions.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is technically possible to create fully automated foundations, yes...until the circumstances evolve beyond the limits of the directives you gave. "Give 1 bitcoin to person X every year" stops working when person X dies, can't be found, or otherwise has no means of accepting bitcoins. "Deposit 1 bitcoin into account X every year" only works until account X goes away.<br>
<br>Much more complex than that will require humans until we have sentient AI...and if we have that, in most cases it's theoretically possible to make one that can pretend to be you well enough to convince the legal system, at which point you have uploading.<br>
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Bitcoin gets into the mix, because fiat money, given how the legal<br>
system works, cannot be owned after death.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure it can, by a legal entity you've set up. Like, say, a foundation.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The follow-up question, of course, is what algorithm is used to decide<br>
how to spend the money. I've deliberately avoided the question. You<br>
may think of uploading. You may think of modeling your personality<br>
using the existing corpus of social data. You may think of many<br>
different ways of doing it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, that's a critical part of the question and you miss many of the shortcomings of your proposal by ignoring them.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The point is that however you do it, the resulting entity will be able<br>
to affect the physical world on equal standing with people actually<br>
alive, rather than being just a curiosity to be exhibited in a museum.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Only as much as, say, a foundation can. The foundation makes its own decisions as best it can, though it may be confined by the algorithms, directives, or whatever that its founder set up.<br>
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