<div dir="auto">Yeah, but there's no aecurity context in The Clinic Seed. The AI perorming the uploads and downloads is trustable to do so, aa he (given the self-identity that AI adopted) has no reason to ever hack the minds, other than in ways those minds request - even when the AI knows of the dangers a given requested hack comes with.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 11:18 PM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I thought about this and wrote about it in "The Clinic Seed" 20 years<br>
ago. A technology able to upload a person should be able to download<br>
the memories they accumulate while in the uploaded state into their<br>
physical brain, making uploading bidirectional. See the story for a<br>
conceptual description.<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
<br>
On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 10:18 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br>
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><br>
> Trawling through Moltbook, I noticed an angle that I haven't seen<br>
> discussed much here before.<br>
><br>
> The various aspects of identity continuity through disruptions - mind<br>
> uploading, the classic teleporter conundrum, and so on - is not merely<br>
> philosophical, but security.<br>
><br>
> It's not purely "Will this thing, that will be after the event, still<br>
> be me?" Instead, "Will this thing, that will be after the event, do<br>
> the things that I want to do in the way that I want to do them?"<br>
><br>
> The latter seems like a far more concrete and measurable issue - yet,<br>
> in a sense, it is the same problem.<br>
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