Yeah. If you’re an upload, the server owner’s power over you is absolute. There’s no precedent for this kind of power in reality, and I don’t think we should bring it into existence.
Other fictional examples are the White Christmas episode of Black Mirror, where an upload gets tortured while being run at high speed, so that in a minute many years of bad stuff have happened and can’t be undone; and Iain Banks’ Surface Detail, where religious groups run simulated hells for people they don’t like, and this large scale atrocity can be undetectable from outside.
Yeah. If you’re an upload, the server owner’s power over you is absolute. There’s no precedent for this kind of power in reality, and I don’t think we should bring it into existence.
Other fictional examples are the White Christmas episode of Black Mirror, where an upload gets tortured while being run at high speed, so that in a minute many years of bad stuff have happened and can’t be undone; and Iain Banks’ Surface Detail, where religious groups run simulated hells for people they don’t like, and this large scale atrocity can be undetectable from outside.