Timeline for How to monetize uploaded consciousness?
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| May 10, 2021 at 17:33 | comment | added | Bitsplease | Giving uploaded programmers development access to the software their running on sounds like it could go wrong in a lot of very interesting ways.. | |
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| May 30, 2018 at 17:56 | vote | accept | Pavel Janicek | ||
| Apr 27, 2018 at 5:42 | comment | added | kettlecrab | It's a good plotline, but realistically I think someone would blow the whistle that the uploads are effectively indentured servants and suddenly people would stop paying for your hip service. | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 18:21 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | And a few hundred years later, a war over the legality of virtual afterlives happens. :p | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 15:12 | comment | added | Ruadhan | Digital Mercenary sounds like a title for a book I'd really enjoy. Probably written by Adam Roberts. | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | ShadoCat | I had two profit centers and this was one of them. You answered this one thoroughly enough that I stuck to the second method (descendant visits). | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 1:11 | comment | added | Carlos Arturo Serrano | A serious economic analysis of brain simulation is Robin Hanson's The Age of Em. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 17:14 | comment | added | Monty Harder | Not just programming. There are lots of security cameras out there; far more than can be monitored by corporeal police officers. But some of your uploaded minds can be deputized to help catch criminals. Self-driving cars run into situations the AIs can't handle due to construction, etc. When they recognize they're in trouble, they could signal for help, and one of your uploads could help it through the rough spot. Also, it costs quite a bit for the salaries of drone pilots. Talk some of your uploads into becoming mercenaries. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 11:12 | comment | added | Secespitus | @kingledion Programmers are just one example. People who ran a business know a lot about running a business. Ask them if they would like to help with a little pet project and give them problems business people have as little homework questions. They will provide the not-cloud-based people will valuable insights - and that insights will be worth a lot of money to not-cloud-based people. If you were able to make a lot of money you probably have some kind of valuable knowledge and you can utilize that kind of knowledge in the cloud. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 11:08 | comment | added | kingledion | How many people who had enough money to upload their mind know how to program? I'm guessing if you took the richest people in the world today, even the richest in hte under 40 crowd that might expect to be uploaded in another 40 years, you won't find that many programmers or researchers. Do you think Zuckerberg and Bezos can still usefully program? When is the last time they wrote code? | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 11:06 | comment | added | Lee Leon | Good answer (yes, that was what I thought after reading the question). Uploaded minds can be very productive in both the arts and the sciences, as well as within the IT environment - they can generate a great deal of revenue, while actually having very little need for it (although I expect providing for their families and maintaining their own cloudspace might be an important consideration). However, while some creatives may well enjoy working in such a way, there would also be an underclass obliged to work simply to maintain their presence and cloud survival. Interesting potential plotlines. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 10:48 | history | edited | Secespitus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 10:02 | comment | added | Kepotx | "No illnes" i would say no physical illnes, but you can still have mental issues, even more if you have limited social interaction and no physical interaction at all | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:59 | history | edited | Secespitus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:57 | comment | added | Kepotx | Exactly what I got in mind. As the service cost a lot, the people are probably intelectual, artist, good businessman or anything like this, so they can continue to work. Lot of potential. Let say that they die after 50 year of hard work, and continue to leave in the cloud for at least another 50 years: a century of experience. That's really a lot of potential | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:45 | history | answered | Secespitus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |