[MURG] Uploading IP (intellectual property)

[Joseph J. Strout]

At 11:20 AM -0500 2/27/04, Yan King Yin wrote:

>5 or 8 decades, did you do the calculations?

Yes.

>  Give us at least some basis for that estimation.

Check out:

Strout, J. "Mind Uploading: an alternative path to immortality." 
_Cryonics_ 19:26-30 (1998).

If you can't find this at your library you can probably order a copy 
from Alcor (publishers of Cryonics magazine).

>50 years' time-to-market doesn't really preclude
>the possibility of securitization. It actually
>makes things go smoother, even accelerate it,
>whereas if we don't do it the pie will be grabbed
>by the most aggressive people or companies in the
>future. That will be a more chaotic outcome where
>original contributors would not be rewarded much.

It certainly won't be more chaotic; quite the contrary, the more the 
relevant research is in the public domain, the smoother and more 
certain it will be for everybody.  And as for rewarding the original 
contributors: who cares?  Isn't immortality reward enough?

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