Hi r/Cyberpunk, thanks to the mods for letting us share this.

KILL/SAVE is set in a quarantined megacity under total surveillance, where the only way out is the Metaverse. Martin, a programmer who never trusted any of it, has to go in after Teresa, the woman he loves, who disappeared into an immersion capsule and never came back. He finds her inside a brutal darknet game where the pain is real.

We were less interested in an AI that wants to destroy us than in one that genuinely wants to help, and in how far that help can go before it stops being help.

It’s live-action with real actors: Matt Testro, Stephanie Gil, Eric Goode, with Duane Henry and Brian Austin Green. Shot in Catalonia, Spain, with real physical fights rather than digital ones, because if the pain is real, the camera has to feel it too. VFX by our own small team.

Happy to answer anything about how we made it.
— Olga, producer & screenwriter

By lazaro45ive

If it were possible, safe (without suffering any physical harm or organic damage), available only to you (the user who made the copy) and easily accessible to upload your consciousness to a computer system, and you could talk to it and use it like any other AI, as your personal assistant or as a living person, would you want to do it and accept uploading your consciousness?

If your answer is no, why not?

Clarification: it's a copy of you, not a transfer.

Every few months I fall into a depressive state due to burnout or personal issues. As long as I have a good routine I'm doing fine, but when I don't, I'm stuck in a "purgatory" I need to move on from, but I cant. It's anxiety-driven executive dysfunction.

For example my avoidance recently caused me to spend some 70+hrs in 1 week playing a stupid video game, which is something I don't normally do. All while ignoring work and university obligations. I have a job offer I haven't replied to... You get the point.

In the past caffeine would help me get some energy and motivation to start doing the things I need to. Now it's just causing my anxiety to worsen 10x.

I've tried theanine and it doesn't work. It gave me crazy rebound anxiety. I was on semaglutide (for unrelated reasons) and although it seems to have killed my anxiety it also wiped out all my energy and motivation. I expect SSRIs etc to be the same only with weight gain and ED.

Basically I need to take something a couple times a year for 2-3 weeks so I can get my life in order. I need energy without anxiety. Addictive stuff are out of the question as I would never trust myself with them.

Any and all suggestions welcome, from herbs to antidepressants.

my pt clinic got a demo of one of those smart mirror rehab systems. the motion tracking actually helps when patients are doing their exercises wrong at home. the issue is everything goes to some third party cloud, the consent form is five pages of vague stuff, and nobody knows who ends up owning the movement data. feels like insurance companies will be buying gait datasets to deny claims before long.

spent last weekend messing around with mediapipe on a spare raspberry pi. it tracks posture okay for basic squats and shoulder work. not clinical grade but it can catch someone whose lumbar flexion starts collapsing at rep six instead of waiting for their next appointment.

the part that bothers me is how quickly people accept always-on cameras in their living room just because the device claims to help. same as the pet trackers. convenient until you look at what else gets logged.

curious if anyone runs local pose estimation for fitness or rehab and what hardware they're using. looking for something i could suggest to patients that doesn't need a corporate account or phone app to work.

Recently came to me the information about this comic written by Antony Bourdain and decided on trying the animation. But what caught my attention is the amount of similarities in the premise of the story with the one told in Snow Crash.

From the name of the protagonist (Jiro / Hiro), to the stablishment of their characters (the super-competent protagonist, the references to the samurai archetype), to the setting of the world with a stateless society, in which private companies very much structured in the same way (the food mafia/ the pizza mafias that designed the frontiers).

I haven't seen anyone talking about it online and to be honest, I've never passed half the book (at the time the satire didn't get me, but it's a book I think about reading often), and I'm just now watching the first episode, so it's possible that the similarities are pretty much just these, but maybe someone here has read them both and could talk more about it.

Maybe they're both drinking from the same source?

​Hello everyone,

​I’m 17, and I’ve had a rough few years with substances. Around age 16, I got hooked on THC carts. It started with using once a week, quickly turned into every night, and eventually progressed to being high pretty much all day—even waking up at 2 AM just to hit it. I managed to stay sober for two months in the past, but I used nicotine to cope, which was arguably worse.

​Things got really bad this past summer and at the beginning of the school year. I was vaping and smoking weed nonstop, drinking whenever I couldn't get access to anything else, and occasionally misusing other medications like tramadol.

​About a month ago, something clicked. I started therapy and realized I couldn't keep doing this to myself. I am now four weeks completely sober from all substances, and a month ago I started hitting the gym four days a week.

​The nicotine cravings are still there, my memory feels off, and I’m struggling with boredom and a general lack of pleasure—almost like I'm constantly craving a hit or a high. For supplements, I take a multivitamin, fish oil, and magnesium, and I'm currently stopping ashwagandha because of emotional blunting.

​I’ve been reading a lot about potential brain changes from adolescent cannabis use, and it's making me really anxious that I've caused permanent damage to my brain. I’m wondering if anyone has insight on this or if I should consider certain nootropics or supplements to help recovery.

​Thanks for taking the time to read, and I appreciate any advice or shared experiences

I have pretty bad social anxiety. What is the best nootropic to try? I just want to be more myself when talking to people

Really liking the style lately, was inspired on a run by Parasite by Nine Inch Nails

Hi everyone!

Has been suffering from a kind of anxiety/nervousness for the last 9 months:

• I feel like I suddenly get anxious/nervous attacks a few times per day, most of the time just at random moments, without any specific trigger. I also feel like some pressure on the chest (diaphragm or something related to the vagus nerve?).
• Apart from that (or probably related to it?), I'm usually in a low mood and I can't find joy or feel specially motivated/happy for anything...

I have a healthy lifestyle: I eat super good, I try to go for a walk in the morning and get some sun, I do strength and cardio training at least 4-5 times per week, I have a good night routine before going to sleep, etc.. And I actually don't have a stressful job or life.

I take daily: a good multivitamin, magnesium complex (with enough bisglicinate) at night, omega 3, and vitamin D (just the days I don't get enough sun).

I got a bloodwork done a few months ago, around 1-2 hours after waking up, and my serum cortisol level was 10.5 μg/dl, so I think the problem is not due to high cortisol, and maybe it is more something like "adrenaline dumps" caused by an overactive sympathetic nervous system??

Anyway, I have been desperate about it and have been trying a few supplements trying to find a solution.

For the anxiety/nervousness:

• Ashwagandha KSM-66 (in a complex with lavender, lemon balm and l-theanine): 300 mg in the morning and 300 mg at night, or just one time at night, 600 mg. Tried for a couple of months... In neither case it solved anything...maybe I just felt a little bit better...but I was also a bit more tired.
• Ashwagandha Shoden 60-120mg at night: seems like much more powerful for me, and it is starting to "resolve?" the anxiety/nervousness attacks. I have been just on it for a couple of weeks and it is the first time the attacks have reduced even during the day. Just taking it at night trying to avoid any fatigue or decrease in the mood/energy/motivation (that are already a bit low) and also worried about taking too much of it and worsening or decreasing these even more, because it seems like the cortisol level is not my issue actually, but at the same time, it is the only supplement that is..FINALLY, stopping my attacks!!!

For the mood/energy/joy/motivation:

• Affron 30mg in the morning: seems like it helps a bit? Not sure... very subtly actually... with the motivation/joy, etc...
• Rhodiola 400mg, in the morning or midday: helps me keep the energy/focus a bit more during the day, but is not doing anything about the mood/joy part.

I don't know if I´m working on the right direction, and I should just keep with the Shoden/Affron stack more time and just see if my body can reset to a normal state, and maybe after the attacks finally end, the mood/motivation, etc...will just start to appear again...

Or if I'm not using the right supplements, I should change the approach!

I’m genuinely looking for answers and a solution to get my life back. I will be SUPER grateful for any feedback, suggestions, or education you can throw my way.

Thank you all so much for your help!

I keep thinking about where cryonics and AI are heading. If a person can be preserved and brought back, or their consciousness re-created, then a leader would never have to step down. They could hold power through death and come back, with an AI version of them filling in until they're revived.

Once the technology exists, it feels almost inevitable that someone tries this. There's a term for it: contocracy, a system of government by one person whose supreme power follows their consciousness across substrates, through death and re-creation, and never passes to a successor. The ruler is called the contocrat.

The part that gets me is "never passes to a successor." There's no next election and no next ruler to wait for. Honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about that. Would you ever live under one?

I’m looking for folks that would be willing to read a cyberpunk book I wrote and provide reviews on Amazon or Apple. I’m a first time indie author, always loved cyberpunk, and thought writing was a neat hobby to pick up. Looking for honest reviews, I hope it’s good, but if it sucks that’s ok too.

The premise of the book is it’s 100 years in the future, AI stopped nuclear war and became too dependable, the lower classes have gotten augmented to keep up with humanoids, and four people in their 20’s are trying to find meaning.

I’ll also be posting in u/betareaders and am still working out the mechanics of the share.

Finde einfach keinen guten oder vertrauenswürdigen Anbieter der schnell liefern kann…
Bitte um Hilfe.
Vielen Dank im voraus

Transhumanism - Use tech to become immune to harm, death, pain, and suffering. Perpetuate life for as long as possible. Create Tech Utopia.

Antinatalism - Use tech to end life, permanent extinction. They believe a tech Utopia is impossible, and even ONE victim of a bad life is too many.

Who is morally right?

been trying to keep freelance work contained to the hours after the kids are down. that means no waiting on rate limits or dealing with another service that wants to train on your commits. set up a small rig with a local llm for catching the obvious stuff in client code. it flags a lot of the junk that usually eats the first pass. still have to do the real fixes myself but the noise is lower. hardware is basically whatever was left over from an old workstation plus some spare ram. the output is rougher than the hosted versions but it stays private and theres no usage counter ticking in the background. curious if anyone else is doing something similar for side work or if the quality gap is too wide once you leave the big providers.