My day job is, currently, writing a cross-platform automatic software updater.

As banal as it sounds, I feel a sincere personal connection to my work. Some day, I intend to be a cyborg or an uploaded synthetic intelligence with a purely synthetic (lizard-person-shaped) body. It will need software/firmware updates.

I want to write a software updater so good I would be comfortable using it to update the drivers on my body and brain.

@kistaro I have absolutely wondered before about how updates might work in the future with cyborgs and uploaded minds. Got to make sure those things interface nicely with the mind.
... and then there's hardware upgrades too...

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