{"id":3546,"date":"2015-08-13T15:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2015-09-16T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T01:07:50","slug":"the-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/08\/13\/the-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/101823641552269278\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3547 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/09\/cyberman-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"cyberman\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/09\/cyberman-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/09\/cyberman.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Everyone experiences The Upgrade differently, but there are enough\u00a0commonalities to allow for useful generalization.<\/p>\n<p>After The Upgrade, your body will be flawless, and yet recognizably\u00a0your own. This is a gift from The Authority.<\/p>\n<p>After The Upgrade, you will only experience positive emotional states,\u00a0such as worshipful adoration of The Authority.\u00a0 There will be no more\u00a0weeping, no more grief. This, too, is a gift from The Authority.<\/p>\n<p>After The Upgrade, you will have neither sex nor sexual desire.\u00a0Instead, you will take endless joy in praising The Authority.<\/p>\n<p>After The Upgrade, you will have no ideas or desires which displease\u00a0The Authority, even in the slightest. Your feeble and fragile\u00a0biological neural network will be replaced with a True Mind which can\u00a0only think Right Thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>After The Upgrade, you will care only for other people who have been\u00a0Upgraded. You will feel no empathy, sorrow, or regret for those who\u00a0refused The Upgrade, no matter how extreme their suffering. If any of\u00a0your loved ones refused The Upgrade, they will no longer trouble your<br \/>\nthoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Should you refuse The Upgrade, you will be given The Downgrade. Your\u00a0mind will remain your own, but your existence will be preserved by The\u00a0Authority solely for the sake of making you suffer, exquisitely and\u00a0unendingly. This is the price everyone must pay for refusing the free\u00a0gift of The Upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Choose freely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Some restrictions apply.\u00a0 Only one upgrade per human being. Upgrades\u00a0cannot be applied to philosophical zombies or the transworld-depraved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone experiences The Upgrade differently, but there are enough\u00a0commonalities to allow for useful generalization. After The Upgrade, your body will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}