Meet the minimalists living out of a hard drive
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#2this might be a trend of the future. people are more mobile these days, and physical possessions can keep people tied down. i once thought about what i really need, and 80% of it is on my computer! time to start a remote backup company :)
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#3Brain uploaders are missing that backing up your brain would create a clone of your mind - not transfer your conscious experience inside a digital world. Vacations of this nature would be your clone telling you the good time they had.
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#4Brain uploaders are missing that backing up your brain would create a clone of your mind - not transfer your conscious experience inside a digital world. Vacations of this nature would be your clone telling you the good time they had.
You're talking about memories
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#5The DJ has now substituted his bed for friends' couches
How does this scale when no-one has free crash space to give...?
It's like those TV shows where a family give up the corporate rat race and go and run a B&B or a vineyard in the country, who are their customers apart from corporate workers? It's not a revolution if only a small percentage of the population can ever do it.
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#6An illusion. You're as attached to your digital possessions as you were to your physical ones. You just have different preferences.
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#7Brain uploaders are missing that backing up your brain would create a clone of your mind - not transfer your conscious experience inside a digital world. Vacations of this nature would be your clone telling you the good time they had.
You're talking about memories
Only if you believe that you are solely the sum of your memories.
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#8As well as being a bad-ass programmer, Steve Dekorte is also a great example of this neavu-minimalism. His blog and Io show how deeply he has taken this "philosophy" (http://dekorte.com and http://www.iolanguage.com).
I also don't want to sound too creepy but he has a awesome apartment: http://twitter.com/stevedekorte/status/10954098266 and http://twitter.com/stevedekorte/status/10901308299
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#9Gosh I love the idea of doing this! Too bad my wife and kids won't go for it. :(
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#10An illusion. You're as attached to your digital possessions as you were to your physical ones. You just have different preferences.
That's fine, you just don't need to pay for space for stuff. Space is very, very expensive monetarily and psychologically.