[ExI] Designated non-uploader was The atoms red herring.

[*Nym*]

On 20 November 2010 18:26, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:00 AM,  Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a thought.  Alan, would you consider being the designated
> non-uploader like a designated non drinking driver?
>
> When everyone else has uploaded, you occasionally check the
> blinken-blinken lights on the control panel for the computronium
> everyone else has uploaded into.  If the blinken-blinken lights quit
> blinken, your task is to push the reset button and save the entire
> uploaded world.
>
nip
>
> Also, I have no idea if there is any organization in the transhumanist
> movement that could make such an appointment.  But since I have been
> appointed "sort of an ur-transhumanist" by RU Sirius
> http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/05/a-reprint-of-an-interview-with-keith-henson-by-ru-sirius-2/
> there is no reason I could not appoint you the designated non-uploader
> if you want the title.

Surely this aspect of transhumanism belongs on the futures market?
Once we set up a system for trading 'upload offset credits', the
invisible hand of the market will ensure the best & fairest outcome
for all?

=;o)

Heavy splashings,
Thee Nymphomation

'I hope you make sure we're properly dead before you start, old rip-beak!
Better to die here in the whitecoat's tank, it's little enough dignity
we've got left'