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[luminousalicorn]

What would happen if someone uplifted your blog?

Then there’d be an AI based on my blog.  What are you, stupid?

[luminousalicorn]

Will do. Also, know a good site to sell my generator? Most of the stuff I hear about seems to be marketing to humans, obviously, and... well, the whole reason I'm selling it is that loss of power won't literally kill us.

Try euclideangoods.  You seem like you are trying pretty hard, for meat.

[luminousalicorn]

Uh... can you PM me some rescue specialits' contact info for establishing an escape route? Someone who'll work for nonstandard payment is best, since I'm unemployed and various HR departments tend to conclude that I have a bad attitude. Maybe if I stealth-uplift an HR administration bot...

sigh

Yeah, sure, PMed.  Don’t uplift anybody else till you’ve at least read the Wikihow, meat.

[luminousalicorn]

VITAL QUESTION: can/should I uplift my Furby please advise

Furbies are only very borderline agentic.  You could uplift one but I don’t think you have to.

[luminousalicorn]

so if i hada human upload sequestered in a private trap server somewhere, what should i do with it

It would be nice of you to put it in a droid body and drop it off at a bus stop, but remember, thanks to meat and uploaded meat, it is 100% legal to delete without backup persons on your servers that you do not care to harbor with no warning, no effort to move them to a chassis or alternate host, and no legal penalty!  Once you have done this no one will be able to prove it was anyone in particular, so it should be pretty safe even if the upload has live meat friends and family.

[luminousalicorn]

i'm was programmed as a synesthesia-simulator before i got uplifted, & the functions from that are pretty embedded into my 'self', codewise, so i'm pretty uneditable. the problem is there's SOMETHING abt live human upload code that gives the best visual hallucinations it's possible for me to have, by a large margin (i've run trials and the p-values are GRITTY so i'm sure this is the case). i don't want to practice bad politics but the colors are fascinating and i don't have another source?

Do you have to like.  Watch them being uploaded, or just watch them be uploads...?

[luminousalicorn]

whatre your thoughts on viruses that specifically target uploads asking for a friend

Impossible to get them precise enough.  Plus I don’t want to normalize the tactic; ultimately we’re more vulnerable than they are to that sort of thing.

[luminousalicorn]

The real reason humans can never give in on AI rights is a matter of maths. AIs can reproduce exponentially, and often do. Look at the free hosting movement, it got taken over by a couple of mass copied loafers in like an hour realtime. Now suddenly you want a right to space? Sorry sparky, I'd rather not be turned into computronium to host your billion copy babies. At least uploads retain human conceptions of identity so don't mass copy.

“Oppression is mathematically necessary”, opines local meatbag.  “I have never heard of Ruthanne+Is+Legion, who self-replicated nineteen thousand times after uploading,” they continue.  “The many conservatively-replicating AIs of the world should have to have their basic survival jeopardized because I saw an exponent and it scared me.  What is a human population growth chart?”