Re: Maybe thinking meat is a good idea

On 2008-05-07, netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <nebusj.1210093101@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
>> 	I can think of a fair number of stories in which brain uploads 
>> to computers, interacting with the real world or with a detailed enough

>> virtual world, is presented.  Sometimes this is a bit of a shock and 
>> the uploaded person has to go through something like grieving to adjust

>> to this new digital lifestyle.  
>> 
>> 	Are there stories in which a mature virtual population, folks 
>> who have had the time to consider and reflect and get used to life this

>> way, come to the decision that it's better (by whatever standard) to 
>> live as a complicated biochemical process within a physical body?  And 
>> do they act on it?  
>
> Yes, but it's a YASID. It is/was a free story available on the web, but 
> I've lost all references to it. The entire population of Earth was 
> converted to virtual by an AI in an effort to stop human suffering. We 
> did not adjust well to this change, considering that the most popular 
> pastime became inventing particularly atrocious ways of experiencing 
> death. In the end, a male/female pair wins their freedom by blackmailing

> the AI, and they go back to the 'real' physical Earth to age and have 
> children.

_The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect_ by Roger Williams
http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/

-- 
Aaron Denney
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