den Otter wrote:
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> > (Earliest estimate: 2025. Most realistic: 2040.)
Which is not practical. Initial uploads will be expensive.
> > From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>
> > We're running close enough to the edge as it is. It is by no means
> > certain that the AI Powers will be any more hostile or less friendly
> > than the human ones. I really don't think we can afford to be choosy.
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> We _must_ be choosy. IMHO, a rational person will delay the Singularity
> at (almost?) any cost until he can transcend himself.
It is all a matter of trust. Who do you trust?
What you want to guard against is unethical persons being uploaded. You must ask yourself after careful investigation and introspection if any one of the first could be trusted with god like powers. If not, those individuals must not be allowed to upload. Interview each with veradicators like lie detectors, voice stress analysers, etc. to find out a) what their own feelings and opinions about integrity, verbal contracts, etc are, and b) have them take something like an oath of office (the position of "god" is an office, isn't it?).