JayDee

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What does maintaining continuity of consciousness look like to you? As in you are able to talk to your copy? And continue to live your normal life outside while your digital self lives their digital life?

Or are you saying you want the transition to digital to be seamless, where your digital self remembers laying in a chair, a quick pin-prick, and then they're in the digital realm?

Keep in mind, we have zero understanding of how you'd get the meat consciousness to transition into the digital consciousness - it's likely not even possible. The two options for copying are keep both alive or terminate the original somewhere before bringing the digital one online. There's many ways to do both, but those are the two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

That continuity of function is arbitrary. In reality it provides people comfort in some idea of a soul but there's nothing suggesting it actually provides anything to the continuity of consciousness.

Between every loss in time, where you stop forming memories until you wake up again, you have nothing to affirm that your current consciousness is the same as your last waking period's. The only thing vaguely providing that illusion is your previously-formed memories, which would exist all the same on the digital mind, in theory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Aren't emojis pictograms and ideograms but not usually logograms? They're direct depictions of concepts, not usually direct stand-ins for words like logograms are.

Better examples of logograms in English I think are &, $, %, @,+,=, etc. We actually have a bunch we use all the time.

Specifically they said 'Kanji', though, so I think they're talking more about the actual character structure of ~~:.|:;~~.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I often view Event Horizon (1997) and Sphere (1998) as sister films that work good together.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how but you made an abstract logo look like a leatherdaddy. Excellent work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Probably you should be breaking on the hill? Regardless of if your foot's on the gas or you're just letting the slope do the work, you're still speeding which is a hazard.

Yeah, I'm sure it also racks up some revenue too. Why not get a few more bucks while keeping the careless on their toes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
  1. What games? That's a VERY big part of this whole process.
  2. What are the laptop specs? The hardware is also a massive part of it.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's just an absurd premise.

Researchers are specialists in their fields and have carved out an academic niche. They study a single thing for years at a time before publishing a paper, and the process of studying anything is brutally methodical and likely quite often boring until you maybe discover something. It's then boring again as you write your paper on your work, regardless of whether it discovered something or not.

All of a sudden, your co-researcher just turns to you and goes "Fuck it. Let's research something else tonight. Something fun as a treat".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well, that's a small problem compared to being a pile of dust without power armor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There will be collateral damage. There always is. The idea there wouldn't be collateral damage is already setting the bar higher than is feasible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Probably should go join the Thousand ~~Suns~~ Sons. They might set you up with some nice power armor.

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