How glitch free would you want the emulation to be before you gave up your body.
If we’re going to keep the analogy going, I’d jump on it as soon as it doesn’t hard BSOD. Lets take a look at the advantages even poorly emulated ROMs have over the originals (and presumably uploaded humans have over their meatspace analogues):
-The ability to make copies and store them remotely, in case my house explodes
-No degradation of the stored data, so it’ll still be around in 1000 years as long as we make copies
-Easy ability to inject code or modify hexes on the fly, so we can change anything we want
-The ability to view any layer independently, so we can isolate/examine/troubleshoot any process we want
-Save/Reload states, in case we want to explore theoretical situations or past states
-Time acceleration in case we want to skip boring parts or spend a year of calculation in one realside minute
-Disassembly and reassembly, in case we want to tear something down, fully mod it, then build something new
-Convenience, in case we want to use it somewhere we don’t or can’t take the original, like Alpha Centauri
-Online Multiplayer, because the original made you travel there while the emulator lets you do it over the interwebs
-Efficiency, since we can have a dozen copies running at triple speed for the same cost of running one of the original
Last but not least—One day the original will be gone, and it’s better to have it emulated than not at all.
I think I would wait a little while longer, myself. I might get glitches in my gullibility section and give away all my money or make other very bad long term decisions such as modifying my code on the fly in silly-hard to recover ways.
If we’re going to keep the analogy going, I’d jump on it as soon as it doesn’t hard BSOD. Lets take a look at the advantages even poorly emulated ROMs have over the originals (and presumably uploaded humans have over their meatspace analogues):
-The ability to make copies and store them remotely, in case my house explodes
-No degradation of the stored data, so it’ll still be around in 1000 years as long as we make copies
-Easy ability to inject code or modify hexes on the fly, so we can change anything we want
-The ability to view any layer independently, so we can isolate/examine/troubleshoot any process we want
-Save/Reload states, in case we want to explore theoretical situations or past states
-Time acceleration in case we want to skip boring parts or spend a year of calculation in one realside minute
-Disassembly and reassembly, in case we want to tear something down, fully mod it, then build something new
-Convenience, in case we want to use it somewhere we don’t or can’t take the original, like Alpha Centauri
-Online Multiplayer, because the original made you travel there while the emulator lets you do it over the interwebs
-Efficiency, since we can have a dozen copies running at triple speed for the same cost of running one of the original
Last but not least—One day the original will be gone, and it’s better to have it emulated than not at all.
I think I would wait a little while longer, myself. I might get glitches in my gullibility section and give away all my money or make other very bad long term decisions such as modifying my code on the fly in silly-hard to recover ways.