@DocTaylor. Welcome back! Great thoughts. We just upgraded the forum yesterday.
For me, there are two core problems in the current endeavors towards digital immortality. Firstly, there is hardly anything which could be called a human interacting digital legacy. Secondly, there is hardly anything which could be called a community actively engaging with digital legacies of the deceased.
I canât agree more with you. This is the reason why we are here to build a community to safeguard future digital souls. Digital souls are vulnerable to survival threats, malicious tampering, and misrepresentation.
Survival
There are three essential requirements for digital souls to survive: Storage, Computing Power, and Online Access . It is very difficult for digital souls to survive by relying on commercial contracts because most companies wonât last very long, and the post-bio people wonât have the ability and legal rights to switch to other providers. On the other hand, a community can choose a decentralized, Do-It-Together, and free service approach.
Malicious tampering
Nobody would like to share everything in the brain with any strangers. We all want to keep a certain amount of privacy even in the post-bio state. Even a plain lifelog needs to have multi-level access control for the visitors. We need a trusted computing model to protect the digital souls from security break-ins.
Misrepresentation
In a world that no one speaks for you, digital souls will be vulnerable when misrepresentation and defamation happen. They need a community that can really stand up for, speak for, and fight for them. The community must have an identity control system to make sure that its memberâs digital presence is real. We could use the immutable ledger of the blockchain technology combined with the community governance to make sure the identity of every soul is protected.