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>this would also make interstellar travel time scales irrelevant. Not really. You're assuming this "machine storage" mechanism can preserve state forever. Even
by naravara 7y ago
>this would also make interstellar travel time scales irrelevant.
Not really. You're assuming this "machine storage" mechanism can preserve state forever. Even if you manage to upload consciousness losslessly and maintain all the ineffable qualities of "life" or "soul" or whatever (that we don't even really have solid philosophical definitions for), you'd still need to contend with data corruption and bit rot over cosmic time-scales.
- m4rtink 7y agoThere are many error correction techniques suitable for this, such as for example fountain codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code You basically encode a message (say, it's 10 some data storage unit unit long) into a much bigger lot of chunks (say 1000 0000 units), which you then transmit. As long as you receive a pre-determined amount of the chunks (1000 units might be enough), regardless of order, you can reconstruct the original message. With speed of light lag, you can't really expect re-sends & will have to use some encoding working on a similar principle to this one.