Great synthesis Alan I agree 100% On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, it seems that I should add some detail to my anti-uploading stance. > > I am not an uploader and I don't support uploading, especially with > respect to myself. > > That said, there does seem to be two categories of uploaders. > > First, there are the "porch uploaders". These people see uploading as an > alternative to death and see it as a means for getting another go-round. > On balance, I don't have any problem with that. They see a choice > between uploading and death, and if you accept that as a dichotomy, then > it is reasonable to choose uploading. It is also reasonable to chose > death in that case, but then it's more of a coin-flip or a value > judgement. Porch uploaders do not have a specific teleology and do not > propose anything that would negatively impact people who do not chose to > upload. Because of that, I don't really care because it falls under > morphological and neuromorphic freedom and should be treated as a basic > right. > > The hard uploaders, on the other hand, have a very different outlook. > They believe that uploading should be achieved as soon as possible, and > implemented universally as soon as it can meet their definition of > safety. They see no future for organic life, no alternate courses of > evolution, no possibility for even any revision or improvement of their > own meme-plex. They propose an absolutely cataclysmic teleology that > would obliterate life as we know it, and everything we value in our > current incarnations not only here on Earth but across the universe. =\ > > It is this later group that I rail against because it precludes all > other evolutionary paths and because it just plain sux. =\ It denies all > ambitions that aren't scanning your brain into a computer simulation. > Basically, if you don't work for a laboratory studying mind uploading, > then whatever you are doing is merely killing time while you wait for > the uploading research to complete and the singularity comes and uploads > you and ushers in the "post upload era" where biological life will, at > best, be keept around until it finally relents and allows itself to be > uploaded. =( > > -- > IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. > > Powers are not rights. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/27738727-35a82580 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
