[MURG] oh, the other thing

[Aaron Miller]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

> It's a bit early to start thinking up epithets, isn't it?  But
> seriously though, almost everyone is going to be born in biological
> form, live a number of decades, and then be uploaded.  At that time,
> most of them will still have family, friends, spouses, etc. who
> aren't yet uploaded, and with whom they'll want to continue to live
> and interact.  I don't think there will be much of a division between
> uploading and biological people, as much as there will be between
> those who live in the real world, and those who live entirely in
> artificial realities.

You seem to be making the assumption that people will only upload their
minds to counteract the effects of aging, which may not be true in the
long-run.  I think that there would be a tendency among the uploaded
population to favor artificial realities, since physical interaction with
the real world would involve expensive and resource-consumptive robotic
bodies.

--Aaron Miller
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