[extropy-chat] Article on transhumanism on the leading Italian weekly magazine Panorama

[Samantha Atkins]

On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> At 07:22 PM 3/9/2005 +0100, GP wrote:
>
>> No rational argument against [uploading], more like a subliminal 
>> appeal to
>> reacting instiictively against, but the article is not that bad you
>> know.
>
> Okay, but what I'm wondering is *what* they mean by `uploading the 
> mind', and why they disapprove? Is the `Yuck' factor--`Oh, how creepy, 
> a brain in a vat!'

Well, I would at least ask some questions before signing up.  I would 
want at least some guarantees of being fully myself in all ways not 
dependent on having a physical body.   Next i would want to know what 
rights with what guarantees are enforced (or somehow self-enforceable). 
  The perfection of oppression and of endless torture and other 
approximations of hell might too easily await me once uploaded if 
unscrupulous persons or AIs gained control.

I doubt i would be the first volunteer.


- samantha