I'm going to — cautiously — assert that uploading their brain is the most dangerous thing a person could ever do or have done to them
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In fact I had a character say exactly this, back during Fine Structure, and I stand by it https://qntm.org/postmortal
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Also, the only thing more dangerous than being an upload is being the first (intact, executable) upload in history
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The Lena of uploads
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Imagine if Lena was a person "She is" No, I mean if she was a real human being "She is" No, I mean—
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Data doesn't have human rights
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The worst thing that can possibly happen will happenhttps://twitter.com/qntm/status/916075041204383749 …
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Do you remember those stories about tribes who thought photographs stole a part of one's soul?
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(And that was BEFORE Photoshop.)
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Smash cut from that to a scene of someone blowing their own brains out rather than let law enforcement upload them
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I am precisely as serious about this as the technology is serious about actually existing.
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Okay I should stop there before I go full Basilisk
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