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Transhumanist Conundrums - Updated weekly or whenever I feel like it
Shanadeus
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In this thread I shall pose thought provoking questions on various topics that are linked to the transhumanist ideology.
Today's (8/6) question:
Would you resurrect a loved one through one of the following hypothetical technologies?
(A) Personality Reconstruction
He or She will be created by an artificial intelligence based on the following:
- Your and others memories of them (will be directly scanned by the A.I and analysed by it, removing any incongruities and taking personal inclinations/thoughts towards the ressurectée into account)
- Their genetic information (if available)
- Whatever other information available on them (personal information such as diaries, memoirs, etc and non-personal information such as medical reports and so on)
Example method:
Cloning them, raising them in simulated conditions (in a virtual environment) and then directly adjusting their personality to make the ressurectée as indistinguishable as possible from the original person.
(B) High-precision simulation
Basically, the A.I will be intelligent enough to derive the past state of the universe based on its knowledge of the present. But it's not a flawless simulation and it will never be entirely accurate.
It will rewind a simulation of the current existing universe (created to its best knowledge) to the moment right before the ressurectée "died" and basically import this person into a present virtual reality and let it run from that point but without dying (any lacking information can be supplemented by doing (A))
Can be embodied in an organic or robotic body in non-virtual reality on their request.
(C) Temporal Information Uploading
Similar to the above, but with time travel technology that mean that the "imported" person is identical to the person you want to resurrect.
Keep in mind: No temporal transportation of the person occurs here.
The A.I will simply peer back in time using a wormhole or something and be able to scan the brain of the dying person on a sub-atomic scale and create a digital upload that continues to live in the present just as the person dies in the past.
Can be embodied in an organic or robotic body in non-virtual reality on their request.
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Which of the above options would be satisfactory?
Please judge them on an individual basis if possible.
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Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Go back in time and bang their mum.
Compare and make a detailed chart.
Show it to them.
Satans..... hints.....
You can only look back in time, not travel there or interact with it.
well you can't do any of the things suggested in your OP either so I didn't see the difference
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
MY THREAD, MY RULES!
This specific comic always bothered me, because it's stupid in many of the same ways that those transhumanist nerds are.
Then use time travel to kill Hitler over and over. It is the perfect plan.
Why I fear the ocean.
BUT WHAT IF, HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING OF COURSE, YOU COULD?!
Although I guess I'm glad its not, I can't say I didn't look forward to the creative ways people come up with to make fun of such posters
yeah
good thread
that was sarcasm
Who wants robot arms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTFHUbwtieg
dis is now a sealab thread
Anyway, to answer all of these: who the fuck knows? Since none of this is even remotely possible with today's technology we literally can't even begin to speculate on the results of the first two methods, and only speculate a little on the results of the third method because it entails making a perfect copy of the person, except they're not dying anymore. Presumably this would mean that they'd be the same person, but it's still too far-fetched to say anything meaningful about it.
The thing about speculating about the singularity is that it's speculating about the singularity. The whole point of the singularity is that it's impossible to predict what happens after it because everything will have changed so drastically. This whole exercise is nonsense as anything but a creative writing exercise.
He's more machine now, than man...
roboblojos
awesome
good work, neil degrasse tyson
if they're homeless it would be a robo blowbo blojo
the only show from canada
what about robohobomojoblojos
satchmorobohoboblojos
ha ha what
I look into the past all the time
it's called reading a book or watching the history channel
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
give me a small electric motor, a wheel, a piston and a fleshlight and I can make this happen
for the deluxe model I'll include some hydraulics
My podiatrist is from canada so they had the Canadian news channel on in his office.
I guess the duke and duchess of Whatever, England were visiting canada.
can it also play la cucaracha?
That would be Prince Harry and his new bride, Hermione
I'm going to make a nest here
They already have this.
It move along with porn apparently.
Robogina.
hell yeah muchacho
it also has 26" spinners
that's why I like this subsequent comic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PspagsTFvlg
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
https://medium.com/@alascii
Okay he can make a metal thing spin.
I'm really pleased with this post, you guys.
You know, some times, I see the amazing advances of technology in my lifetime, and there's nothing to do but wonder at how far we've come in such a short span.
This is not one of those times.
Why I fear the ocean.
man that show was really going places, I am sad it was cancelled