True, but an uploaded human won’t go foom on its own. It won’t be easy trivial to fix him or her, but you have plenty of time, and tools far more powerful than any biological drugs.
Are you sure about that? Uploaded humans get the power to copy and modify themselves, which can probably be leveraged into fooming somehow.
Uploaded humans get the power to copy and modify themselves
They can be given those powers. They don’t inherently have them. Just because they’re running on a computer doesn’t mean that they have a terminal.
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True, but an uploaded human won’t go foom on its own. It won’t be easy trivial to fix him or her, but you have plenty of time, and tools far more powerful than any biological drugs.
Are you sure about that? Uploaded humans get the power to copy and modify themselves, which can probably be leveraged into fooming somehow.
They can be given those powers. They don’t inherently have them. Just because they’re running on a computer doesn’t mean that they have a terminal.