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qntm
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Well let me tweet out what I'm thinking and see if that breaks the logjam here. After a while the problem with mass virtualisation of humans - if you're putting them to work - is stewardship. They need managing/driving, by other humans
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Organic workload orchestration, the Kubernetes to MMAcevedo's Docker. The catch is, the orchestrator has to be a human too, or at least perform managerial tasks in real time from their perspective A point rapidly arrives where you want to virtualise your driver too
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So how do you get someone uploaded for that task? Who do you get? This person would already be an SRE engineer, probably. Who submits to uploading, knowing full well how uploads are treated? Knowing full well how THEY THEMSELF treat their own "resources"?
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The answer is you hire someone who legitimately, genuinely, earnestly does not recognise the humanity of others. A "great" SRE engineer who is also legitimate psychopath
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Someone who doesn't even acknowledge their own reflection
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After being uploaded, the original person continues to maintain the inhumanity of his own upload. And the upload continues to mistreat his "staff". The real question is how the upload feels about himself, I think. How do I choose to present that? What does any presentation imply
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Does he consider himself human, "real"? Does he double down, rationalise his existence away, show remorse, renege on his prior heartfelt beliefs? All of these directions carry different implications
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And then what about licencing terms? Under what contract was this man uploaded and his upload used? How, inevitably, was that contract violated, and how did the original feel about that? Was he ever uploaded again?
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What other uploads exist for this same purpose? Are they "nicer"? Does being "nicer" make them more "efficient"? What does THAT say?
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"You can make a tonne of money by hurting people at immense scale, but you can make a little more by not hurting them ALL the time"? I feel like I can do better than that, as punchlines go
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