[Loughla]

The problem is, until we are post-scarcity or post-money (I don't know what that word is), then the incentives are there to abuse a system of brain/computer interface and uploaded consciousness. That being said, I don't believe we can ever really get to post-scarcity or post-money (again, what's the word?) without those two things being integral.

Removing the 'negative' from a person's life and allowing them to exist perpetually is, I believe, required to avoid the current selfish race to the bottom of hoarding resources and capital.

[marcosdumay]

We have a perfectly fine model to allow people to make user-friendly devices and software while allowing them to win a life. It's called selling it for a price.

The problem is that while those hyperfounded companies are allowed to dump the same products with and recover the costs by some criminal anti-privacy anti-freedom-of-speech anti-individual-initiative and anti-whatever-else-is-on-my-countries-Constitution ring, the market will be poisoned and nobody will be able to make a honest living on it.

[xwdv]

Post-currency, in all it’s forms. Social currency, karmic currency, hard currency.