Frumpagumpus t1_ja2n6uw wrote on February 26, 2023 at 11:23 AM

Reply to comment by DNMbeastly in An ICU coma patient costs $600 a day, how much will it cost to live in the digital world and keep the body alive here? by just-a-dreamer-

yep thats what I said

but it doesn't really matter is my contention

star trek teleporter

humans dislike death because of the loss of family and friend group cohesion and institutional knowledge and pain associated with it. in practice we even shut our awareness down for periods when we sleep. software forks and kills processes and services permanently all the time.

helpskinissues t1_ja2ofr8 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 11:39 AM

Yes. We will all die to become enhanced versions of ourselves. Suicide cult soon.

Frumpagumpus t1_ja2ucop wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:49 PM

https://youtu.be/WYsDy41QDpA?t=241

but yea i'm not gonna volunteer to be the first one to have my brain sliced up. but if you are going to die anyway why not die in a way that makes sense

as far as we know, entropy even comes for superintelligences