MOVED TO PLUSH.CITYany mf who honestly thinks that uploading your mind into a computer will let you live forever has never had to restore a file from 12 years ago in a format that doesn't exist anymore
also: how do you even "upload" your mind? your consciousness is stored in physical form - neural pathways. even if you find a way to somehow transfer them into digital form, i am not sure that the copy of your brain will be the actual you with YOUR OWN consciousness, and not just an independent copy of you.
mybarkingdogs@tillianisafox I'd still think it's worth exploring, but it will sadly remain hypothetical for a long time (and the current tech bros advocating it/neuralink is a horrific human rights violation waiting to happen, and it shouldn't be considered in that context)
@tillianisafox Like, IMO, there would be *tons* of advantages in being able to turn consciousness/sentience + individuality into a recordable/capable of "backups" and transportability in much smaller/less dependent on environmental variables form of some sort...
But anyone telling you that's going to happen in the next 12 years (or, to be clear, the next 100 without some major, sudden supporting developments including non-capitalist control of it) is selling you BS at best, recruiting for TESCREAL cult stuff at worst.
@mybarkingdogs my main issue with this technology in theory is that it doesn't really "transfer" anything. to transfer you have to transport your physical brain into digital space, not copy. because if you copy then you're just creating another you that thinks like you and talks like you, but the actual you will still be stuck in physical world. you could create hundreds of copies of yourself, but it doesn't allow your consciousness that is stored inside your physical brain to "escape" into another brain.
and the most horrifying part is that I am sure that early versions of this technology, if it somehow will be able to transport your consciousness into digital form, will inevitably cause brain damage because there will be some data lost or corrupted due to technical limitations
@tillianisafox this, and see what I was writing when this posted, similar :)