I once read about this being a possible explanation for the famous Fermi-paradoxon, that every Intelligent species might end up In a server room instead of exploring the stars.
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C
May 27, 2024
Just make a dyson net and have the server farms in spacecraft orbiting the sun. A postsingularity AI couldn't figure that out? Besides, I don't see a scenario where the whole Earth is covered with oceans in the future, the hydropshere doesn't have enough water for that....
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Jeff Lindstrom
May 26, 2024
Uploading a copy of my consciousness to a machine brain would have plusses and minuses. Eidetic memory is a definite plus. The loss of creativity from random thought processes that merge to create a new idea is a more definite minus. Also, putting the brain of a Volkswagen into a Porsche (or vice versa) isn't going to help.
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Obscure Mars
May 05, 2024
Ultra generic Matrix for you here.
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imscottbase
May 05, 2024
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Ultra generic comment right there!
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Interested In Stuff
Apr 14, 2024
I am one of the folks that considers an upload to be a copy. No matter how perfect the human emulation software is, the thing that thinks it is me, will think it is a copy since I do. The continuation of existence requires embodiment in my book, and although a virtual world would be indistinguishable to the emulation and it might be perfect, it would not be life.
The servers being drowned here didn't kill anyone. The folks all let themselves die long ago.
If they had had any sense they would have put servers on rockets and sent them to the stars. If the uploads are intelligent then they ought to do something useful. Sitting around playing virtual…
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John Dee
Jan 08
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Which is why when I imagine a post-human brain-to-computer scenario I go with the Ship of Theseus method. That's the notion of slowly computerizing a human brain over time with the person never experiencing a loss of consciousness. You wouldn't be copied just the substrate on which "you" run will have been upgraded. From that point with your new brain you can experience the whole digital godhood thing while still being an autonomous human, likely with other cybernetic upgrades.
I once read about this being a possible explanation for the famous Fermi-paradoxon, that every Intelligent species might end up In a server room instead of exploring the stars.
Just make a dyson net and have the server farms in spacecraft orbiting the sun. A postsingularity AI couldn't figure that out? Besides, I don't see a scenario where the whole Earth is covered with oceans in the future, the hydropshere doesn't have enough water for that....
Uploading a copy of my consciousness to a machine brain would have plusses and minuses. Eidetic memory is a definite plus. The loss of creativity from random thought processes that merge to create a new idea is a more definite minus. Also, putting the brain of a Volkswagen into a Porsche (or vice versa) isn't going to help.
Ultra generic Matrix for you here.
I am one of the folks that considers an upload to be a copy. No matter how perfect the human emulation software is, the thing that thinks it is me, will think it is a copy since I do. The continuation of existence requires embodiment in my book, and although a virtual world would be indistinguishable to the emulation and it might be perfect, it would not be life.
The servers being drowned here didn't kill anyone. The folks all let themselves die long ago.
If they had had any sense they would have put servers on rockets and sent them to the stars. If the uploads are intelligent then they ought to do something useful. Sitting around playing virtual…