Been thinking about this. When we can upload our consciousnesses into the cybermatrix metanet, the consciousness that goes there is going to be a copy, a backup. Meanwhile, you and your body are going to continue to live and die in the humdrum meatspace world, while some damn copy of you is living it up in a universe constructed of pure dreams.
Assuming that it takes nonzero effort to upload one's consciousness, and the net gain to oneself remains at zero, it would be a complete waste of time to upload. You don't get any of the benefits. Somebody else gets to have all the fun, and they also get to call themselves `you' while they're doing it.
I suspect that Charlie has probably already addressed this, but I could never finish Accelerando.
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Date: 2009-01-23 01:12 am (UTC)Assuming that it takes nonzero effort to upload one's consciousness, and the net gain to oneself remains at zero, it would be a complete waste of time to upload. You don't get any of the benefits. Somebody else gets to have all the fun, and they also get to call themselves `you' while they're doing it.
I suspect that Charlie has probably already addressed this, but I could never finish Accelerando.
``Humdrum Meatspace World'' wbaenfarb.