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Uploaded Intelligences (UIs) are digital emulations of humans whose minds have been recreated by a Deep Scan procedure at the cost of physical death. The technology was initially pioneered by Logorhythms, but Stephen Holstrom's death led to the collapse of the program.

Still, a new generation of researchers played with it and developed it slowly throughout the 2010s and 2020s, uploading the first person—Laurie Lowell—in 2019. Two events—the release of the uploaded David Kim and the replication of UIs by Alliance—led to an uncontrolled singularity that brought unprecedented change within just 20 years.

History[]

Stephen Holstrom envisioned uploaded intelligence as a way for him to rule over the populace. His followers believed he was attempting to perfect the technology to solve the population crisis and hoped everyone would upload. He called this project Project Moonshot.

At first, those uploaded were uploaded, for the most part, without their knowledge or consent so that they could benefit their employers. Eventually, by introducing emotion into the mix, their work became more productive, but they realized they have become uploaded.

After one of these uploaded, Vinod Chanda, discovered he was an upload, he sent the blueprints for the procedure to six of the top cyber governments on the planet, hoping he would not be alone. After the public discovered their existence. The governments of the world disconnected public internet in an attempt to keep UIs at bay. Some civilians thought the procedure was a hoax, others saw UIs as a threat, while others wanted to become them.

As the populace started to protest, the governments of the world implemented Safesurf, a way to eradicate the UIs. When Holstrom learned about this, he created a deadly virus in retaliation. However, his plan was stopped by Caspian Keyes, who uploaded and sacrificed himself to stop the virus.

Shortly after this, black market uploads started to take place for those who wanted a better life or those who wanted immortality, and all were devoured by Safesurf. This caused public outcry and soon, data centers not connected to the internet were created for an ultra wealthy. Eventually, Safesurf was contained and uploads became more common. The minimum age to upload was set at twenty-one, but parents could sign consent forms for those underage to upload.

Over two decades after the first uploads, over half the population has chosen to upload. However, due to the sheer numbers, most are put in stasis until more storage becomes available. An orbital ring was contracted to solve the storage and cooling problems, but construction on a second anchor point along the equator rested on Incan ruins and the locals objected to the project and construction was halted.

The Flaw[]

When first uploaded, a UI is prone to decay if they process too fast. If left untreated, a UI will start to glitch before losing memory and eventually ending up in a decayed and vegetative state, their code is considered corrupted. Upon research, those working on the flaw discovered that it is neurobiological rather then digital. The main cause of this is housing more memory then their minds are used to due to moving faster then the could while embodied.

During his studies, Caspian finds that UIs need to be around other UIs just as people to help them improve, much like how patients with neurodegenerative diseases improve when being around loved ones. However, rather than being around other people, UIs need have their code integrated with the code of another UI. A cure was eventually discovered by Caspian utilizing this method.

Each "cure" created makes a CI formed from the personalities of the two UIs that code was borrowed from. In some cases, creating this CI can absorb both UIs into it to create one being, or just create a separate being seen with MIST. The Cure has an unknown amount of usages before another needs to be created.

Known Uploaded Individuals[]

* Revived in Maddie Kim's matrioshka brain.

References[]

  1. ↑ Ellen Kim states that for her job in the Cloud, she has to overclock. Three weeks in the material world is five years for her. This suggests that UIs can run over eighty-seven times faster than a human being. The twenty-year gap between "Apokalypsis" and "The World to Come" would have been over seventeen hundred years for a UI running at that speed.
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