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Idiot: "I'm gonna download my consciousness and live as an immortal machine." lol @ "immortal" machines. Off the top of my head I can't think of any complex machine with a functional lifespan greater than that of the average human. Appliances: 5-10 years depending on the appliance. Cars: 5-10 years avg. 20-30 with a really good owner. 50+ with meticulous care and preservation. Aircraft: same as cars Computers: lol like 3 years. Navy Warships: 50 years Assembly Line Robots: 20-30 years I can't think of a machine operating today that I probably won't outlive. When you think of all the cars, toasters, computers, blenders and lawnmowers you burn through in your lifetime, the sci-fi cliche of robots outliving humans seems laughable.
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same op
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Feb 23, 2016 12:32
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Riddle me this genius, what about the cloud? The cloud will outlive us all.
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Feb 23, 2016 12:34
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I'm already a machine. Tell me why I shouldn't literally become a vacuum cleaner or a dildo for some bourgeois ice queen to use and casually toss into a garbage dump.
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Feb 23, 2016 12:36
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it would be uploading not downloading
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Feb 23, 2016 12:36
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upload my consciousness into an anime
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Feb 23, 2016 12:37
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one of those harem animes
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Feb 23, 2016 12:38
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a toaster has a better life than me. i wish i could upload the toasters personality into my brain
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Feb 23, 2016 12:38
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Darkman Fanpage posted:it would be uploading not downloading what's the distinction?
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Feb 23, 2016 12:38
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I only want to use this power to insert myself into internet porn tho
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Feb 23, 2016 12:40
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Op I don't think the idea is to put your mind in one machine forever. Instead, you put it in something like the Internet, which currently relies on many machines all over the world.
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Feb 23, 2016 12:40
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the clock in big ben was built in the 1850s and still works
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Feb 23, 2016 12:43
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SHISHKABOB posted:Op I don't think the idea is to put your mind in one machine forever. Instead, you put it in something like the Internet, which currently relies on many machines all over the world. Living on the internet seems like a fate worse than death. You'd have access to all the porn on earth, but no dick to jack to it. You can read about it more in my Hugo Award Winning short story: I Have No Dick and I must Fap
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Feb 23, 2016 12:43
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XMNN posted:the clock in big ben was built in the 1850s and still works lol if you think I want to live for eternity as a giant clock in London.
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Feb 23, 2016 12:44
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Don't need a dick when you can be the orgasm, prostate, or goatman
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Feb 23, 2016 12:46
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PathAsc posted:Don't need a dick when you can be the orgasm, prostate, or goatman JPEGs can't feel pleasure.
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Feb 23, 2016 12:47
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Ive created a garys mod lvel where there is an infite amount of benzos in a vast array of colours and sizes. Just waiting on the donwload tech to live in there
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Feb 23, 2016 12:53
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Applewhite posted:JPEGs can't feel pleasure. How is that different from being a goon?
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Feb 23, 2016 12:54
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Get in before the meat apocalypse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mZZiI4ShQ
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Feb 23, 2016 12:56
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yeah but what about the singularity thing and stuff that sounds cool
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Feb 23, 2016 12:59
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the singularity is going to own bones for white people as long as our Hispanic day labourers don't accidentally unplug us when doing whatever if is they do in my habitation pod
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Feb 23, 2016 13:04
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Lunixnerd posted:Riddle me this genius, what about my butt? My butt will outlive us all. Cloud to butt extension never fails to deliver.
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Feb 23, 2016 13:06
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you'll be uploading a copy so you'll still die making it all pointless from your perspective
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Feb 23, 2016 13:14
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the idea is you can trivially copy your consciousness around from older machines to newer machines since its just files try it before you knock it
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Feb 23, 2016 13:14
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you wont be lollin, if downloading consciousness is ever a thing - we are all hosed (by whoever has control over it).
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Feb 23, 2016 13:18
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Ahundredbux posted:you'll be uploading a copy so you'll still die making it all pointless from your perspective This has also always bugged me about the whole "uploading" solution. Frankly I think we're better off focusing our efforts on some kind of immortality potion. Actually my favorite "immortality" solution is the "Multiples" from Peter F. Hamilton's Void trilogy. Basically the gist is that your consciousness gets synchronized across several bodies who all actively share your memories, personality and experience. You can't "die" until they're all destroyed and you can keep adding new bodies to replace ones that age and die. It gets around what I feel to be the major problem with consciousness uploading and plus you can have orgies with yourself. Best option, IMO.
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Feb 23, 2016 13:19
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*buys dvd burner and 5 million blank disks*
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Feb 23, 2016 13:21
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Computer, set temperature to 20 degrees celsius, set an alarm for 6:00am tomorrow morning and tell me about everything you ever purchased on thinkgeek.
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Feb 23, 2016 13:35
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Applewhite posted:what's the distinction? You download porn. Pornographers upload porn.
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Feb 23, 2016 14:02
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Tace Vim posted:*buys dvd burner and 5 million blank disks* my brain would only use like 5 discs at the most probably
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Feb 23, 2016 14:04
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Hatebag posted:You download porn. youre gonna have to slow down *pulls out notepad*
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Feb 23, 2016 14:05
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They are just dupes of the lower forces who are trying to get the human plants to make immortal bodies before the planet is recycled. And the correct terminology you want is 'upload' OP - downloading a consciousness means being possessed.
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Feb 23, 2016 14:06
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When I die, I want to die. I don't want to be resuscitated or even have some mock immortality. "living" through machines sounds pretty horrible
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Feb 23, 2016 14:06
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nickhimself posted:When I die, I want to die. I don't want to be resuscitated or even have some mock immortality. "living" through machines sounds pretty horrible lol if you dont want to be a human killing cyborg the way god intended
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Feb 23, 2016 14:08
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Yeah op is totally right there is literally no evidence of any form of data lasting more than a human lifetime. Literally all information in existence today is only a few decades old, soon to disappear forever when the devices that hold it rust away.
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Feb 23, 2016 14:11
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Ultron did nothing wrong
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Feb 23, 2016 14:12
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DONT CARE BUTTON posted:Yeah op is totally right there is literally no evidence of any form of data lasting more than a human lifetime. Literally all information in existence today is only a few decades old, soon to disappear forever when the devices that hold it rust away. I'm talking more about the machine body. Obviously you could keep downloading your consciousness into new bodies but you only have 10-20 years to do it, as opposed to like a hundred or a thousand like people seem to think. I guess if you're already super rich that's not a problem but if you're working class you are gonna be spending all your spare time working to buy your next body and you'll have no time to enjoy your immortality.
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Feb 23, 2016 14:17
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Applewhite posted:Actually my favorite "immortality" solution is the "Multiples" from Peter F. Hamilton's Void trilogy. Basically the gist is that your consciousness gets synchronized across several bodies who all actively share your memories, personality and experience. You can't "die" until they're all destroyed and you can keep adding new bodies to replace ones that age and die. It gets around what I feel to be the major problem with consciousness uploading and plus you can have orgies with yourself. You should read Permutation City by Greg Egan.
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Feb 23, 2016 14:19
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Ahundredbux posted:you'll be uploading a copy so you'll still die making it all pointless from your perspective Lol I always thought this was the most disheartening thing about the whole concept. You can't get around this. The worst thing I think is if you could repeatedly "jack yourself in" the internet and copy your concious to and back what if you were just killing yourself constantly but you would never know because your copy only knows what I knows and it appears seamless to it ?
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just pluck out the brain and pickle it so it'll stay fresh longer is probably the correct solution
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