[MURG] mind uploading x prize?

[Bill Cousert]

I think a Nanotechnology X Prize would be a better goal.. Pherpas the
first person to build a self replicating assembler gets $1 billion.




On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:38:03 -0700, Brubaker, Shane
<shane_brubaker at affymetrix.com> wrote:
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> I like the idea of writing this up as an X prize.  It will bring some public
> attention to the idea and help make the goals and concept more concrete. 
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> Is anyone from MURG planning on doing this?  Should we put together a
> virtual team?  I would be willing to put some part time work into it. 
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> Thanks, 
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> Shane 
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> -----Original Message-----
>  From: Sim Bamford [mailto:sim at plaything.co.uk] 
>  Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:38 AM
>  To: murg at minduploading.org
>  Subject: Re: [MURG] mind uploading x prize?
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>   >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 ahuman. I'm a believer in destructive uploading, so
> that means they'dhave to kill at least one volunteer< When you say you're a
> believer in destructive uploading do you mean that you think destructive
> uploading technology will mature sooner, or do you have a philosophical
> doubt regarding identity in the case of non-destructive uploading?
> Personally I have both of these questions in mind, nevertheless for the
> reason you give I think that such a prize should be for the first group to
> achieve a non-destructive "exact" simulation of an individual.  >The
> transition moving from a rat to a human wouldn't be trivial, butsuccess on a
> rat would yield all the basic technology needed on ahuman (I think).< I
> agree that success on a rat would yield all the basic technology -
> resolution of scanning / recording technique is probably the biggest issue,
> the extra computational power required to run a bigger brain will probably
> become available in due course. But from the point of view of a prize, would
> the X-Prize have been so interesting / enticing / inspiring if it had been
> the first group to give a rat two consecutive rides up to 100km?  Simeon
> BamfordPostgraduate Research StudentNeuroinformatics Doctoral Training
> CentreEdinburgh University 
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