<div dir="auto"><div>1) Will you, as you do today, own the hardware you run on, so there's no such thing as a "rented" existence?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2) How will you pay, in general, in one or ten thousand years? Will money in a form recognizable to those today still exist? Will economics run on reputation instead? Will there be an abundance economy that gives everyone a universal basic income sufficient to maintain existence?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 3:18 PM William Flynn Wallace 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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">So let's say that uploading brains works and as long as the system supporting you is OK you are OK.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">But to use an old saying: there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. How will you pay for your upkeep a thousand years, ten thousand years, from uploading? Will there be a publish or perish requirement? Or some such? bill w</div></div>
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