Charlie StrossMar 25, 2025

TIRED: Mind uploading
WIRED: Gut uploading

Your gut has a complex nervous system of its own—the enteric nervous system—that has huge and subtle effects on mood and cognition! Just digitizing your brain is inadequate, UPLOAD THE GUT FIRST! (The brain can come later.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

Enteric nervous system - Wikipedia

Show threadAndrew
@cstross i'm taking this to mean that maybe AI needs to be connected to a printer to work properly. like, not to print anything, just so there's some good messy fluid involved so it can properly think
Mar 25, 2025 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadschrotthaufenMar 25, 2025
@andrewt @cstross To achieve true AGI, it needs to run on the OT infrastructure of waste water treatment plants.
Show threadParker MorseMar 25, 2025
@cstross @andrewt say, a nice hot cup of tea
Show threadJdeBPMar 25, 2025

@andrewt @cstross

It does make one wonder whether all of the corpsicles that went for the cheap option and only froze their heads have in fact completely screwed any infinitesimal chance that they might have had as a full body.

#cryonics #corpsicles