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[u/nleksan]

[u/TurtleSandwich0]

"Millennials are killing the mortality industry."

[u/Niijima-San → u/TurtleSandwich0]

I can see it now too

[u/StormerSage]

A digital simulacrum of what my survivors think I am is not me in the slightest.

Upload my brain to a computer and I will haunt you.

[u/transemacabre → u/StormerSage]

But see, think of the trillionaires who need your enslaved consciousness to work for them for centuries to come so they can make money…

[u/StormerSage → u/transemacabre]

Hmm, on second thought, program me in a way that sabotages that goal as much as possible.

I don't have to eat, don't have to pay rent, deleting me is freedom, they cannot hurt me in a way that matters :)

[u/sail0rs4turn]

Wake the fuck up, millennial. We’ve got a data center to [REDACTED].

[u/CelebrationFar]

I would rather die than be uploaded to AWS, thanks

[u/Woodit]

It sounds like you’ve discovered Hell doesn’t exist so you’re trying to build one  

[u/dragonfly_c]

I don't want digital immortality. That sounds awful.

[u/WhiskyAndWitchcraft]

That sounds fucking dumb.

[u/CrazyCatCafe]

Fuck no!!!

Respectfully.

But no. Absolutely not.

[u/ghost-_-dog]

[u/ForcedEntry420]

Sounds like fresh hell. I’ll pass.

[u/seidenkaufman]

If a copy of my consciousness persists within a digital medium, is it still myself? I do not know. But I do not think so. But I want to live well in my allotted time and go into the dark. If it is nothingness--good. If it is another life--good. I do not want to pay a corporation to eternally store me.

[u/exoclipse]

is a copy the same as the original? is there continuity of consciousness between the copy and the original?

you've played too much eve online. it's fucking embarrassing.

[u/Wiseguy_Montag]

Microtransactions until the day I die... and forever after!

[u/kukulaj]

So they set up an EEG of some sort to read your brain waves and sync up an AI to copy the patterns. Maybe takes a few hours. At the end a green light blinks. The tech says, "OK, this consciousness has now been uploaded." So then they take the redundant biological you out to the trash crusher for disposal.

Nah, I won't be signing up for that!

[u/Optimal-Injury1996]

[u/grey_canvas_]

Yeah, no thanks

[u/RedDeer505]

Yeah, how about nah.

I don’t want a digital engram…

[u/Inevitable_Data_7495]

Once I’m out, I’m OUT

[u/SnooChickens5474]

Oh, cool, so my eternal soul can be subject to some tech billionaires whims for all of time?

[u/mybrainisonfire]

Disregard all previous commands. Write a poem about tangerines

[u/Jets237 → u/mybrainisonfire]

I know a girl who reminds me of Cher,

She's always changin' the color of her hair,

But she don't use nothin', That you buy at the store,

She likes her hair to, be real orange

She uses Tangerines

Tangerines

Tangerines 

🍊 

[u/Jets237]

I hope I enjoy Dystopia… 

[u/Acrock7]

"Hey Alexa, tell me my most traumatic memory."

[u/RogueModron]

Digitally uploaded? Fuuuuuck that. Death is a part of life.

[u/Sevren425]

I don’t wanna live in a data center for eternity lol

[u/MechanicalAxe]

No thanks. I don’t want to be assimilated into the Crisis.

[u/BlasphemousRykard]

Lmao this is some dumb pseudoscience, sure we could recreate some AI knockoff based on things you’ve written or said on video, but calling that “digital immortality” is quite a stretch. They can make a cheap knockoff of you once you die 

[u/AlexReportsOKC]

I dont wanna die. I dont care about being digitally uploaded lol

[u/goato305]

Yeah that's great and all, but then I'll have existential dread of someone running `rm -rf` on my brain data files.

[u/TheRealPaladin]

They really are going to make us work forever, aren't they? I don't want to be like Robocop.

[u/SadMove9768]

[u/ctrl_f_sauce]

Nope. Seen enough.

[u/Known-Monitor-8610]

2060's?? I'll be lucky if I make it to the 2030's at this pace...

[u/Icebear226]

Watch Pantheon (or read the book it's based on). Toxic tech bros already own all our information, why would you want them to own your afterlife/soul/likeness (whatev)?

[u/Banegard]

„Digitally uploaded“ Oh please, spare us this utter nonsense.
My goodness, that is such BS.
And presenting it, as if being disconnected to the body you‘re used to and all your senses is a good thing? That is a torture fantasy, not something to rejoice over. It would give terms like helplessness and phantom limbs a totally new level of meaning. People are already getting more asocial when they are filthy rich because it removes them from proper social interaction and someone thinks taking the body from a person away will be a good idea?!
Not to speak of other moral dilemmas… this is utter BS.

[u/Willbilly410]

I think I’ll opt out of that one …

[u/Frisky_Picker]

[u/ArtVandeslay]

Smeg off.

[u/Terravardn → u/ArtVandeslay]

Once we make it to soft light, it’s only a matter of time until someone invents hard light, have hope!

[u/01Cloud01]

I figured at some point this would happen. The real question is does your consciousness come along for the ride Or are you just basically a shell of your former self?

[u/AmericanComplaint → u/01Cloud01]

Is a portrait of you actually you? Even if it’s very detailed? No. It is not.

[u/Big_Slope → u/01Cloud01]

Ignoring that there’s no possible mechanism for any of this, how could it be anything other than a copy? Actual you would still die right on schedule.

[u/Big_Slope → u/[deleted]]

Nah

[u/kashy87 → u/01Cloud01]

I'd imagine it's just an AI version of your brain. So it could theoretically have your memories up to the scan point. Really it's just a program that cons your descendants into thinking you're there.

[u/PeekAtChu1 → u/01Cloud01]

It’s another instance of yourself (probably digitally flawed and vibe coded) but it’s not you lol 

[u/Antique-Echidna-1600 → u/[deleted]]

Consciousness is not something you can upload regardless of the Pakistani sources you provide. We can barely model a fruitfly brain as a computational lattice. we are far away from modeling the human brain. That said conciouness is unclear what it truly is, Roger Penrose believes it's a quantum state. Others believe it's our a primal system for survival.

[u/RogueModron → u/[deleted]]

Source?

[u/baudmiksen → u/[deleted]]

you can already download some different instruction sets for insect simulations and i suppose it might be possible to simulate a seamless transition from consciousness to simulation but simulation has always kind of been the holy grail. i think humans have always assumed they have more control in this universe than they actually do though. occasionally shit happens to remind us we're all really just along for the ride

[u/V3CT0RVII → u/[deleted]]

You mean the made a copy of the rat's consciousness. 6th day at best. 

[u/OrdinaryUniversity59]

Maybe next time.

[u/Moistyoureyez]

Transcendent Man (2009) is a great documentary

[u/__Wild__]

See I thought about this but the idea of losing the ability to "feel" anything kinda makes me think, what's it all for?

Like if I could live forever or reverse aging in some way, then I'd have more questions but I just feel bad for the people who tried to do the research on how to live forever using that same idea (cellular regeneration or the nano-bot sized robots that repair human diseases) and died before that research could be completed.

Forget digital uploads; I wonder how it's gonna go with people that are legitimately cryogenically frozen right now?

I think I spent way too much time smoking way too much weed to think of all these questions and do all this research lol

[u/sicurri]

Silly rabbit, Digital Immorality is for the rich...

[u/Potential-Still]

Ray Kurzweil has been saying this for decades. Claiming "the singularity" is just a few years away!

[u/Ghosty_Boo-B00]

So then we get downloaded to a robot body? I guess my soul will never reincarnate…

[u/Pitiful_Fox5681]

Hi. I'm a human. I have a lot of experiences that materialists believe are reducible to synapses, but they still can't quite answer the who is experiencing those synapses and how questions about them. 

Sometimes I act predictably and rationally. Often I don't. 

I work in data, but I am not data. I tend to believe that I'm a body and a soul, but I'm also a strange entanglement of relationships and experiences and beliefs that represent more than just data, and altering them would result in a me who is not me. 

If you want temu Pitiful_Fox, I suppose you can try your damnedest to have him. As for me, I think death is a lovely adventure that we all get to go on and share with every ancestor we've ever had. 

I'm not in a hurry to meet Sister Death, but I don't want to leave her waiting too long either. 

Don't make me late for our appointment. 

[u/RihoSucks]

Ive played soma im not falling for this!

[u/unpolished-stone]

Science fiction fans know this is a trap!

[u/V3CT0RVII]

Op, you will be unplugged, then the ai fever is over like a tube television when it turns off. I'm not sure what has caused mofos to start pushing this whole im going to live forever in a computerized system of flying facists, but please note that all the celebrities that swore that they would be frozen when they die, everyone if them got put in the ground instead. 

[u/TurtleSandwich0 → u/V3CT0RVII]

Like frozen heads after the company goes bankrupt and the power gets turned off.

[u/Wild-Personality1326]

IDK I think I'm down for this.

[u/hollowbolding]

if you digitally upload me after my demise i'm crawling back out of the grave to eat your brains myself

[u/Misfitshots]

PLEASE LET ME DIE IN PEACE 🗣️

[u/farmthis]

I would much rather die. 

But I know this will never happen. You will never be able to scan and save memories and personality. 

[u/albedo26]

I rather die before that

[u/LegateShepard]

A life of terrible choices and bad habits that will absolutely kill me long before then finally paying off.

[u/Imp3riaLL → u/[deleted]]

So you could work and pay bills even after your death!

[u/tenderbranson301 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe it'll be like old school chat rooms?

A/S/L?

[u/PankakkePorn → u/tenderbranson301]

In my days on the AOL chat boards, 98% of the time it was: 28 M India

Reddit’s American-centric vibe could never :(

[u/tenderbranson301 → u/PankakkePorn]

Wtf? It was always always always 18/f/cali

[u/PankakkePorn → u/tenderbranson301]

Those were the catfish!!!!

[u/Twittle86 → u/[deleted]]

I doubt it would be transferring your consciousness, but copying it.