From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 01:15:16 MDT
> I think it DOES matter. Most people focus on the science,
> and say that
> uploading is possible. I look at the economics and ask "Why
> would they do
> it"? If you didn't set up a huge trust fund and a company
> dedicated to
> waking you into a simulation, then I would ask who did, and
> what do they
> want?
>
Far enough down the track, it may become trivial to upload a cryonaut into a
simulation, perhaps cheaper than fixing the original body, or safer. You
could wake up in a sim for a vast array of reasons. Perhaps people in the
future all live in a sim, and the real world is a slag heap?
Emlyn
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