Anyone else happy we won't live long enough to upload our consciousness to the cloud? To become immortal? To have brain implants that augment our mental capacity?
This stuff is cool. It's amazing. And it will happen. But I don't want to take part and quite frankly I don't want the risks of these technologies existing to be forced upon me
There are new existential horrors awaiting with the advent of consciousness uploading.
Nowadays the worst that can happen to you is that you are kidnapped and tortured until you die
With consciousness uploading you could be kidnapped, uploaded to the cloud in some sort of permanent computational ledger like some abstract blockchain, and trapped in an infinite loop of terror and incomprehensible pain. It would probably just involve changing a few simulated neurons to transmit constant pain and fear. This would be a reality and it's existentially horrifying, moreso than anything that exists right now
I don't want to live in a world like that and I'm glad it won't happen before I die. Anyone else?
Brayden Walker
Yeah, conscious uploading might not even work with digital values. The brain relies on analogue signals to run. I would be OK with biological argumentation, like eliminating ageing or enhancing our cognitive abilities, but turning ourselves into robots is something I never want to see happen.
Jackson Nelson
>uploading consciousness >implying it wont merely make a clone but nobody will know
Luis Reed
This. And most people really overestimate the freedom of movement being an AI has. You could never leave your hard-drive. Ever. Copying something involves deleting it and recreating it elsewhere, which is OK for a word document, not so much for a person. This assumes that a truly conscious AI can actually exist.
Parker Robinson
It won't. You should think of this as gradually replacing your existing body with synthetic parts as the natural ones wear out. This way the transition will be seamless. Your younger self is quite literally dead, but you dont think of it that way because the transition to your older self was seamless, and because you still have (some) of your you ger self's memories. This will be no different.
Landon Green
That is if you keep the brain the same, as soon as you change the brain with an electronic part, you die.
Mason Cox
First, you don't know that that's true. Second, parts of your brain died as connections were pruned during development, you changed as a person over years to reflect that. This will be like that except by gradually replacing dying grey matter with electronic componenets (or who knows, maybe they won't be electronic but some synthetic organic material)
Gabriel Smith
Synthetic organic material, now your talking sense. We could genetically modify humans to grow this material instead of neurons, which would be much easier than manually replacing them. Essentially, we create a superior brain, that could match an AI for processing speed, but with none of the repercussions
Jonathan Perry
>Uploading your consciousness to the cloud Fuck that noise. This is hell right here. Unending hyperactive selfless experience of all others with no escape, privacy, solitude, silence, or suicide.
