Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

With current trends of surveillance capitalism and nickle-and-diming for every single useful feature, I can only imagine mind-uploading getting closer to an eternal torture than a pleasant afterlife. Some interesting resources that explore this view, which also happen to fill me with existential horror at the prospect of being uploaded (especially against my will): Tom Scott's video "Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers": [VIDEO] qntm's short story "Lena": [LINK] I can especially recommend "Lena". It's from the 'I have no mouth and I must scream' genre of horror.

Though, we might also wind up in the scenario depicted in the satirical three minute short, "Welcome to Life".. [VIDEO]

Of course, the question then of who to trust to be your cloud provider running your conciousness-as-a-service process becomes a very serious one. The main problem is the lawyers. [VIDEO]

A lot of people who post on my facebook wall seem to think that it's the beginning of the Singularity. [VIDEO] I hope they're wrong if it looks like this.

So, my concern about uploading my brain, is whose cloud service do you trust to run your consciousness? Google? Microsoft? Amazon? Facebook? Apple? The level of trust that I'd require is pretty high. You could imagine it once again being relevant to check the pedigree of a company. Ideally there'd be a cloud provider already running now that is known for its trustworthiness. 'established 2013' might actually mean something one day. My main hope is for indistinguishability encryption to reach the level where I wouldn't really have to trust the provider, but as long as you pay a significant performance penalty you're going to end up massively disadvantaged. [VIDEO]

There is certainly the disturbing possibility that "Welcome to Life" [ [VIDEO] ] will rapidly be looking less and less like satire.

This reminds me of Tom Scott's "Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers" video [1] [1] [VIDEO]

You are basically describing this old (2012) video, where this concept is applied to a brain-upload afterlife: [VIDEO]