In the end, things are always rigged towards those who have enough resources to do this kind of things and want to make more. If present crimes against humanism get a free ride, what we should expect about crimes against transhumanism?
It's a good strategy not to make anything organism - like on AI - level, methinks. Although OTOH IBM:s Truenorth does save a lot of electricity so hmm... No. That's the worst kind: hardware - level biomimickry. Anything even organism - like is going to simulation - or - not (try to) take over. It's in the blueprint. Watson is correctly built: left - brain reductive - analytical output that advances by trial and error. Or Wolfram AI with it's hierarchical frames and being like a user interface. I suck at coding at that level for the time being but I think I see that point clearly. So don't mix code and data boys and girls.
> ...uploading isn't real (now), so the things "Lena" has to say about uploading are academic (now).
> The reason "Lena" is a concerning story isn't that one day we may be able to upload one another and when that happens we will do terrible things to those uploads. ... This is about appetites which, as we are all uncomfortably aware, already exist within human nature.
> Oh boy, what if there was a maligned sector of human society whose members were for some reason considered less than human? What if they were less visible than most people, or invisible, and were exploited and abused, and had little ability to exercise their rights or even make their plight known?
> That's real! That actually happens! You can name four groups of people matching that description without even thinking. We don't need to add some manufactured debate about fictitious, magical uploads to these real scenarios. They are already terrible!
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> "Lena" is a true story. You knew it was when you read it.
> So, what do we do about this? In reality?
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> I've got no clue. It turns out that causing problems is a lot easier than organising against them, and I am just a science fiction writer.
> Good luck, everyone.