X-Message-Number: 3972
From:  (Robin Hanson)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 12:35:38 PST
Subject: Uploads

Thomas Donaldson writes:

   For Robin: we've already started using such "pieces of brains". When an 
   expert trains a neural net to (for instance) search for good shares to buy,
   that's exactly what's happening. It's not necessary to devise these neural
   nets so that they like the same foods, want to rest in front of a window
   watching the ocean, etc etc. I very much doubt that we will have to move
   over any part of our experts except the highly specialized ones --- which
   will not strike for higher pay or cause any trouble at all. 

It may not be ultimately necessary, but I think the first feasible
option will likely be to transfer a brain whole hog - this approach only
requires understanding of very small scale brain organization, while
other approaches require understanding of larger scale organization.  

I have laid out my views on such issues in:

  "IF UPLOADS COME FIRST, The crack of a future dawn", Extropy 6:2, 1994.

Robin Hanson

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