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By sandboxing, e.g. localStorage fully functional but deleted at the end of the session...
Mozilla recently released containerized tabs[0], I imagine the next logic step is building containerized Private Browsing Mode [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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Yikes, what kind of horrendous wording is that? "it's probably not possible at all but if it is we'll be there soon!"
> Yikes, what kind of horrendous wording is that? "it's probably not possible at all but if it is we'll be there soon!" “At best” means “viewed maximally optimistically”, and, in the context of a development timeline, specifically “no sooner than”. So, it was saying “it’s probably not possible at all, and, if it somehow is possible, we’re at least several decades away from even a demonstration”. You have badly misrea…
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If you have the technology to simulate a brain, it seems pretty trivial to simulate a body, environment, and associated sensory inputs as well.
Even if the technology to emulate a particular brain based on a preserved copy could exist, it seems to be asking a lot for the engineers to also emulate the specific nervous system that brain has grown to work with without a copy of it...
Brain plasticity can cover some wiring sins - cochlear implants are pretty awful for connecting where they should go, but it's good enough to get some degree of hearing going. Get enough and the simulated patient can help you out telling you if you've got it right or not.
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First and foremost cryogenics has a PR problem. It is somehow more popular to say that you're glad people are dying by the billions than to align yourself with the people trying to make an earnest effort to stop it (now imagine how fast I would be banned for the same position around genocide). I'm not sure whether this will just further the kneejerk anti-cryogenics sentiment or if it will seem to more normalise norma…
I think there are a few explanations: (1) The idea that the ultra-rich may be able to survive into the future cryogenically while 90+% of the rest of the world dies is morally abhorrent. (2) Fearing death so much is viewed as cowardly. (3) This is a bit more abstract, but the implicit assumption in cryogenics that death is a universal bad is troubling. Thousands of years of human thinking have determined that the pro…
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I think there are a few explanations: (1) The idea that the ultra-rich may be able to survive into the future cryogenically while 90+% of the rest of the world dies is morally abhorrent. (2) Fearing death so much is viewed as cowardly. (3) This is a bit more abstract, but the implicit assumption in cryogenics that death is a universal bad is troubling. Thousands of years of human thinking have determined that the pro…
Epictetus was friggin insane though. Taking life advice from him is pretty awful. I doubt his death advice is any better.
What do you mean?
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The future is bright.
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Can you imagine a better incentive for off-planet migration and terra-forming?
Why is incentivizing that a priority? If it is something that needs to happen, then it will need to happen regardless of the incentives.