Curated. I found this story one of the best articulations of what sort of good futures you should maybe expect if things go well, with some handholds to help figure out how to relate to it.
Some have noted in the comments “isn’t this story… dystopian?”. And, well, it could be. It depends a lot on how the details shake out, and philosophy-of-identity works (or how you choose to relate to it). I think we are much more likely to get a worse future than the one described here (even if things go “moderately well”), where the events in the story might happen but subtly hollow out our humanity without us noticing. But I think the story as presented is at least plausible and coherent – I think the sort of incremental uploads, and shifting from self-identifying as an individual human to something that isn’t exactly a human and isn’t exactly an upload, is at least one reasonable way to see one possible future.
Curated. I found this story one of the best articulations of what sort of good futures you should maybe expect if things go well, with some handholds to help figure out how to relate to it.
Some have noted in the comments “isn’t this story… dystopian?”. And, well, it could be. It depends a lot on how the details shake out, and philosophy-of-identity works (or how you choose to relate to it). I think we are much more likely to get a worse future than the one described here (even if things go “moderately well”), where the events in the story might happen but subtly hollow out our humanity without us noticing. But I think the story as presented is at least plausible and coherent – I think the sort of incremental uploads, and shifting from self-identifying as an individual human to something that isn’t exactly a human and isn’t exactly an upload, is at least one reasonable way to see one possible future.