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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/10/2024 20:41, Keith Hensen
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<pre><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:18 AM efc--- via extropy-chat
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class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Why do you think hostility will be a problem when it comes to uploading
as long as it is a voluntary procedure that will not affect anyone else?
</pre></blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">It depends. If a high fraction of the population uploads, there will
be a social collapse. At some point, the social system fails and the
remaining people will move away from ghost towns.</pre></pre>
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One thing nobody seems to consider is the possibility of uploading
into a new artificial brain, in control of a synthetic body, instead
of into a large, shared computing system. That way, there would
still be physical people around in the physical world. They'd have
the advantages of both situations, seeing as their new brains should
be easily capable of connecting to computer systems and experiencing
virtual worlds as well as the real world. Their 'ecological
footprint' would probably be smaller than biological humans as well.<br>
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I could see 'uploading to an android' being a popular option, and a
lot less scary for some people than uploading to a server. It would
also (potentially) solve the tricky problem of who owns and controls
the hardware that your mind runs on.<br>
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Ben<br>
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