[MURG] oh, the other thing

[Major]

"Joseph J. Strout" <joe at strout.net> writes:

> Mind uploading is a medical technology, like a heart transplant. 
> You're thankful for it when the time comes that you need it, but you 
> don't rush into it before you have to.

If mind uploading was available, with only 1:1 processing speed and
robotic bodies which were no more capable (or even a bit less capable)
than human bodies I would take it tomorrow. The reason can be
expressed in one word: backups.

> Even if you don't agree with this statement, I strongly recommend
> that you advocate this view in all public speech [...] Any talk of
> becoming super-humans thinking millions of times faster than normal
> people and otherwise planning to become godlike superwonders, will
> only get the whole enterprise branded as the egotistical fantasy of
> a bunch of socially isolated geeks.

Well it probably will anyway, but you don't have to assume superpowers
to make uploading look good to a healthy person.

Major