A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
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A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
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Re: A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
#2The original press release from the team has much more detail on the technology itself, and is here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb15276833.htm
Re: A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
#3I guess that's one way of managing customer expectation.
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#4I guess that's one way of managing customer expectation.
Getting to non-fatal is just a future implementation detail
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#5Reconstructing a human in silico from a dead brain is likely to be a very expensive process. Why would anyone in the future be interested in going through with it for any more than a few select old brains when there will be plenty of dead brains to go around at that time?
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#6In the case when you die, but your brain still exists, and it starts processing it again in a new host (computer or organic), isn't that not you anymore? Why would my former self want that? Is this a solved philosophical problem for which literature exists?
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#7Reconstructing a human in silico from a dead brain is likely to be a very expensive process. Why would anyone in the future be interested in going through with it for any more than a few select old brains when there will be plenty of dead brains to go around at that time?
that's why you bury some treasure and keep the location locked away in your brain!
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#8“What if we told you we can backup your mind?” ...and never restore it.
As someone who has lived through many backup formats that stop being supported, don’t work, or decay with time this seems monumentally stupid as anything other than basic research.
I applaud their goal, digital sentience, but sorry for any of their customers. They need a pitch that works on the recently dead (eg, current cryo companies) as I don’t think there are any countries that allow euthenasia for life extension purposes.
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#9Reconstructing a human in silico from a dead brain is likely to be a very expensive process. Why would anyone in the future be interested in going through with it for any more than a few select old brains when there will be plenty of dead brains to go around at that time?
Would probably start out as being prohibitively expensive and trend towards relatively cheap if it's possible and there's demand. If it's possible then it's hard to imagine there not being demand.
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#10Reconstructing a human in silico from a dead brain is likely to be a very expensive process. Why would anyone in the future be interested in going through with it for any more than a few select old brains when there will be plenty of dead brains to go around at that time?
You memorize the bitcoin private key before preservation. In a way that requires consciousness to reconstruct.
Public key verifies the value and there’s a smart contract with some percentage to the successful recoverer.
Depending on the recoverer’s profit margin they will restore whenever there’s enough value to make it worthwhile.
Whether bitcoin will exist and whether it will appreciate is a different story. But assuming bitcoin exists, resurrection is a certainty.