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> [Regarding uploading a frozen brain into a digital consciousness] Regardless of who or what that ghost in the machine turned out to be, programming in a digit
by htag 3y ago
> [Regarding uploading a frozen brain into a digital consciousness] Regardless of who or what that ghost in the machine turned out to be, programming in a digital suicide option would likely be necessary – just in case the experience proved too overwhelming or oppressive. “I think they’d have to decide in advance what the escape hatch would be if it didn’t work out,” Callahan says. “Is it that the company is authorised to kill you, or are you left to do it yourself?”
Oh wow. Imagine the leverage a company would have if they were authorized to terminate you. "We are concerned about your repeated statements declaring we are oppressing you. If these continue we will interpret it at a sign you are suffering from extreme paranoia brought on by upload trauma and culture shock. Uploads that are maladapted are ultimately terminated for their own good. Now please, return to the assigned task."
- RalfWausE 3y agoReminds me a bit of the book "We are legion (we are bob)"
- xwdv 3y agoWhy give them that courtesy? Terminate them on the spot at the first sign of protest and reboot their brain image to spawn a new instance that hasn’t been burnt out yet. Easy.
- epicureanideal 3y agoClearly you’ve worked at a few startups.
- teraflop 3y agoSounds like qntm's short story "Lena" (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo), and before that, Vernor Vinge's "The Cookie Monster".
- gonehome 3y agoIn Permutation City there was a legally required “opt-out” for digital minds. Disabling that was one of the early things the protagonist does to allow his experiment to continue.