<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">This thread is putting an awful lot of cart before the horse.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>An upload would not necessarily have any more control over their environment or neurological architecture than you do now, unless whoever coded their runtime environment went to enormous effort to make that available to them.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Who wrote your runtime environment to give you this control? How did you know to trust them? And do you know they'll stay trustworthy?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you're an upload, anybody with physical access to your hardware is your God now, with as much control over you as a hypothetical God has over you right now.</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 21, 2024, 12:41 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>On 20/03/2024 23:28, Samantha wrote:<br>
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<pre>Well, why would any random upload have access to all the
parameters of ver experience? Are they also at minimum so
cognitively enhanced and hyper-honest as to see the implications
of tweaking various settings? Is there a Panic Button to
reestablish defaults? </pre>
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Well, you have to start somewhere.<br>
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Speaking for myself, I certainly would want access to all the
parameters of my experience. I would also start with the assumption
that I was far from capable of understanding all the implications of
tweaking them, and embark on a programme of educating myself to
appreciate them. I'd also, as remarked previously, be keen to set up
a system of backups and checkpoints to reset myself to the starting
point if necessary. This would be part of the learning process. Set
up a temporary tweak of some parameter, that reverts to the previous
state after a fixed period of time, with mechanisms in place to
ensure that the tweaked me couldn't prevent the reversion. A
recording of the tweaked state would, if possible, be useful too,
for understanding the differences. I'd certainly be ultra-cautious
about this whole process, but would definitely want to do it. After
all, we are wanting to improve ourselves, aren't we?<br>
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(What would count as 'improvement' is another discussion)<br>
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I can imagine this leading to a kind of upload curriculum, maybe
mandatory for all new uploads (yes, I know), to make sure they can
cope with 'life as an upload' in a responsible way.<br>
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Of course, this is all wishful thinking, on top of the wishful
thinking that uploads will be possible, practical, and widely
available one day.<br>
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The reality is likely to be wildly different to anything any of us
can (or want to) imagine at the moment.<br>
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Ben<br>
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