Re: [UPLOADING] It's not all about you

Robin Hanson (hanson@econ.berkeley.edu)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:18:54 -0700

'gene writes:
> > > The earliest uploads will likely be cryonics patients, without much
> > > hope of getting a regular body anytime soon.
>
>Why should they want to get bodies? Apart from intrinsically higher
>and drastically cheaper diversity in artificial reality, ...

All these people who don't think an upload would "be them" unless it was meat seem to prefer regular bodies.

Robin Hanson
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