[MURG] mind uploading x prize?

[Eric Zilli]

Yeah, I realized after I sent that that it *could* be about humans,
but it would make it more difficult.
To meet the goal of uploading a human, you actually have to upload a
human. I'm a believer in destructive uploading, so that means they'd
have to kill at least one volunteer--and who is going to volunteer
their life for something that may not work?
The other option is to upload newly deceased bodies, which is more
doable, but that still means if you have to go through n people before
it works, you need to find n newly dead people who have agreed to give
you their body.
The ethical questions about killing a subject (even if they agree to
it, c.f. assisted suicide) would make it difficult research to do in
this country. Using the already dead may get around that, but it may
be difficult to get the subjects.

Given all that, I thought it more reasonable (and far easier) to have
the goal animal be a rat (or even a monkey).

The transition moving from a rat to a human wouldn't be trivial, but
success on a rat would yield all the basic technology needed on a
human (I think).


On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:49:53 +0100, Sim Bamford <sim at plaything.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Eric Zilli <digfarenough at gmail.com>
> 
> >>The challenge naturally
> >couldn't be about humans, but rats should make a reasonable test
> >animal.
> >
> >
> 
> Why couldn't the challenge be about humans?
> 
> Sincerely
> Simeon Bamford
> 
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