if my well-meaning children successfully implement my desire never to die, by being uploaded, and “turn me on” like this with sufficient data and power backups but lack of care; or if something else goes wrong with the technicians involved not bothering to check if the upload was successful in setting up a fully virtualized existence complete with at least emulated body sensations, or do not otherwise check from time to time to ensure this remains the case;
These don’t seem like plausible scenarios to me. Why would someone go to the trouble of running an upload, but be this careless? Why would someone running an upload not try to communicate with it at all?
I don’t want to aggravate the OP’s problem, but a reason that immediately occurs to me is that the people running the upload have a statutory duty to do so but don’t actually care. Consider the treatment of the elderly incapable in some care homes.
Making it a statutory obligation to run them with no legal obligation for their quality of life would be so insane and shortsighted that not even the US legal system would (probably) do it. Let’s make sure it doesn’t.
These don’t seem like plausible scenarios to me. Why would someone go to the trouble of running an upload, but be this careless? Why would someone running an upload not try to communicate with it at all?
I don’t want to aggravate the OP’s problem, but a reason that immediately occurs to me is that the people running the upload have a statutory duty to do so but don’t actually care. Consider the treatment of the elderly incapable in some care homes.
Making it a statutory obligation to run them with no legal obligation for their quality of life would be so insane and shortsighted that not even the US legal system would (probably) do it. Let’s make sure it doesn’t.