From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 04:58:33 MST
Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Richard Steven Hack wrote:
>
>
>>I have no problem with that either. But the impression I got from some
>>of the comments on uploading was that it was intended as a *substitute*
>>for participating in reality or as the primary "residence" as it were
>>for a Transhuman.
What exactly would make reality in an uploaded state any less
"real" than reality in a non-uploaded state?
>>
>
> Virtual navel-gazers will get taken by whoever who controls the hardware
> layer. (Hey, nice piece of computronium. We'll take it!). Nobody abolished
> the rat race, and the limits of growth are given by the
> matterenergy/spacetime concentration being finite. Lacking advent of
> low-threshold spacetime engineering, it pays to not lose touch with
> reality.
>
Dunno. Ask me when we get anywhere close to the supposed limits
. The "rat race" only makes sense if there is no way to better
the fundamentals of your condition beyond that of rats or of
much more in-your-face scarcity. It pays not to mistake current
context for laws of reality.
- samantha
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