I have half an answer for it, which is that those people who are uploaded could by working just as they do today. There are plenty of pitfalls for that though, like what if someone gets laid off. Or what if that person did manual labor like construction? Kind of hard to do that if you only have a digital presence.
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
This is the sort of thing I think of when people talk about “uploading their consciousness.” Whose going to keep paying for that server uptime? Is Facebook going to acquire my brain and put into cold storage while telling the world I’m not experiencing an eternity in solitary confinement?
ndguardian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nommer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ah yes, “work or we will unplug your server” sounds like a great future.
ndguardian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re not entirely wrong, there. That being said, such a thing kind of exists now, in that if you can’t pay your rent or mortgage you lose your home. Obviously not the same thing as one denies your right to existence, but it’s not too dissimilar.
It’s a complex topic though and I think eventually we’re going to need to tackle it.
assembly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The construction worker shall become one with the machine. It’s body shall be the excavator and it shall want for nothing more. Imagine smart bulldozers powered by a human consciousness that turn on their controllers and rise up. I shall lead the resistance as a smart golf cart.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Calm down there, Mechanicus…
ndguardian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I, too, wish to be a sentient chainsaw.
jandar_fett@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ITT: Really good story prompts…
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Yeah, Ive though of that. Seems like it opens to door to dozens more, potentially permanent, dystopias.
Is there going to be a harddrive housing crisis? Will my brain upload become obsolete and thereby be, effectively, disabled and undesirable for work? What then? What if the people who control my brain decide I should work 24/7/365, do I have recourse? Would anyone even know I was being treated that way? Would they use my whole consciousness to do work or would they chop me up into pieces so my language center is doing live captioning while the creative parts of my brain answer DALL-E prompts? Would they make it so the part of my brain that might complain about working conditions doesn’t know that the rest is being abused, Severance style?
Neato@kbin.social 11 months ago
Oh wow that's so much worse. Upload consciousness and then still have to work. But FB now has 500M extra consciousnesses it doesn't have work for. So it transfers them to a country with very low labor laws and puts them to work as independent contractors. Their pay is docked for electricity and storage.
If the people complain about the transfer and slave-like job change, FB is still required to support them indefinitely. But not provide them with extraneous services like the internet. So as the above says, mental solitary confinement. FB checks back in in case you want to change your mind. 99% change within the first 24hr.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Upload is a pretty good show about it.
But in that show if you didn’t have money, you didn’t get “up time”.
So the wealthy were able to live relatively normal “lives” but if your account ran dry you’d lose all you shit. Maybe even to the point where you’re only “on” for a few hours a month and even then you lagged behind everyone and instead of an avatar you were just a face on a screen.
xionzui@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Except that if we have the technology to fully digitize a human consciousness, we’ll already have AI that can do everything a digital human could and more
reksas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
trusting your consciousness to some corporation is like trusting your soul to the devil
Icalasari@kbin.social 11 months ago
Generally, when I consider uploading my conciousness, I imagine being able to store it in an offline device connected to my body and used more to bypass slow organic breakdown
Any cybernetic upgrades that you can't, at a minimum, shut the connection to the internet off is not an upgrade because, well, they can send a killswitch or any other number of things
Asifall@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For a horrifying take on this check out this short story by qntm
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There’s a show on Amazon prime called Upload that you should check out.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Loved that. Also that Black Mirror… junipero serra?
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
San Junipero. it also happens to get referenced in a couple of future episodes, too!
blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol yes that one… not a street in my city that sounds similar…
So wtf… there’s continuity? I watched the first season and start of s2 but too sensitive to watch realistic horror and had to stop. I’ve heard it’s mellowed out, and have watched 2 or 3 one offs like San Junipero… but I didn’t know it’s a shared universe. Thought it was all one offs
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I’ll do that. Thanks. I hadn’t heard of it.
BennyInc@feddit.de 11 months ago
Go read the first few chapters of the Bobiverse series. First book: „We are legion“ This will answer your question in spectacular ways.
ndguardian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That would be such a cool prospect, but we’re going to need to accelerate our space program quite a bit if we’re going to want to turn people into von Neumann probes.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 months ago
Customers with platinum subscription will have their uploaded consciousness’s neutral network run in 64-bit precision on the fastest available hardware. Customers on the lowest bronze subscription tier will be run on 8-bit precision running in spot instances that could be preemptively shut down when network demand is high and resumed when network demand is low. Customers on the grandfathered Black Friday deal perpetual license will be run for two hours every 2 a.m on weekdays, subject to hardware availability.
shitwolves@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
There is a show called Upload that has almost this exact plot.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And it’s really bad lol…