<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:12 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:22 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>since a copy has the same rights, you have to<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>split your resources with the copy.  If you make lots of copies, they<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>are going to be poor.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>In "The Clinic Seed" and other places I proposed bidirectional<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>uploading to avoid this problem.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">What's "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">bidirectional</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">uploading"?</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At a guess, being able to merge uploads: make a copy (uploading in one direction), then later on merging the copy's memories et al with the original (uploading in the other direction).</div></div></div>