Re: Major Technologies

Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:08:44 -0500

EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> Dan mumbled:
> > Unfortunately, nanotech by itself doesn't enable uploading. Uploading
> > requires solution to s lot of other problems. It's a whole lot easier
> > to implement a humanity-destroying scheme.
>
> True...well then. Reverse the priorities.
>
> Leave first...(work on uploading....maybe not leave too far thereby staying in
> communication and benifitting from others work on that.).....then
> upload...(after the details are perfected).....then shag ass to points unkown.
>
This looks feasible. It protects you from an accitental nano-catastrophe, and from human-designed malicious nanotech. It won't protect you from an SI that is determined to get you, but neither will anything else, except becoming your own personal SI. You now have to hope that you can acquire competent nanotech and implement your plan after it's invented but before the catastrophe. Do you have a strategy for that?