All of these are based on an article of faith that we'll keep pushing when we're already falling behind Moore's law and pushing towards sci-fi level thinking du

All of these are based on an article of faith that we'll keep pushing when we're already falling behind Moore's law and pushing towards sci-fi level thinking dust. There's an alternative path that's far less optimistic where it's still expensive but doable and there are places booting people up under horrible simulated conditions either for fun or for weird edge case tasks where sub sapient algorithms just don't get the job done. I would not take universal personhood protections for uploaded minds for granted for example and the more universally accessible the ability to run an upload is the more likely it is some version of you will wind up in some religious nut's hell simulation just for violating some arcane rule you never heard of.