If I were an upload running on silicon, I would feel pretty comfortable swapping in improved versions of the underlying hardware I was running on
Uh oh, the device driver for your new virtual cerebellum is incompatible! You’re just going to sit there experiencing the blue qualia of death until your battery runs out.
This is funny but realistically the human who physically swapped out the device driver for the virtual person would probably just swap the old one back. Generally speaking, digital objects that produce value are backed up carefully and not too fragile. At later stages of self improvement, dumb robots could be used for “screwdriver” tasks like this.
Uh oh, the device driver for your new virtual cerebellum is incompatible! You’re just going to sit there experiencing the blue qualia of death until your battery runs out.
This is funny but realistically the human who physically swapped out the device driver for the virtual person would probably just swap the old one back. Generally speaking, digital objects that produce value are backed up carefully and not too fragile. At later stages of self improvement, dumb robots could be used for “screwdriver” tasks like this.