[MURG] Future of MURG

[digfarenough]

I've been too busy of late to contribute much to the
list, but I thought I'd throw out two quick ideas that
surely others have thought of.

There's one obvious reason that a large business like,
oh HP, MS, Intel, etc, might want to put money into
uploading: It takes a year for an
engineer/researcher/etc to do a year's worth of work
in bio form. As an upload, you get the year's worth of
work in an amount of time proportional to the hardware
you can provide for ver to work on. Not only that, but
after the initial investment of hardware, it doesn't
cost a whole lot to keep these workers going. Uploads
don't need food or heat; they could be paid for
working an equivalent to full time by being given the
computer to live on.

If you want University money, on the other hand, (or a
similar source), the promise of what uploading can
offer may go a long way. Upload a chimp then imagine
the experiments you could do. You get perfect cell
recording and stimulation, perfect lesions, perfect
activation imaging, etc. Granted, the most obvious
problems an upload could help solve may have other
technical solutions by then, but still...

Of course, both are rather long-term goals so only an
entity with a lot of resources might want to put money
towards them at this early stage.
 -Eric

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