Badly paraphrasing "Rapture of the Nerds" (co-written by TFA's author): [Immortal uploads] did not have to win the debate against the anti-upload faction - they

Badly paraphrasing "Rapture of the Nerds" (co-written by TFA's author): [Immortal uploads] did not have to win the debate against the anti-upload faction - they only had to outlive them