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I have an even better idea: Cloning a female in her own womb, using her body cells as a base.

• bena 6y ago
  That's clever, but how do we account for replication errors? Wouldn't it be better to infuse the host with DNA from another of the same species? Sure, you wouldn't get perfect clones, but this also opens us up to the possibility of combining desirable traits from multiple people.
  • anticensor 6y ago
    That method would be useful to produce the master copy.
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• renewiltord 6y ago
  Well, that's the part¹ with > I can create copies enhanced by partner genetics and trained by me who have the ability to fit themselves to circumstances I cannot foresee. Normal reproduction is good for passing on advantageous genetics and parenting is a short-term transfer of advantageous memetics. The brain upload is for advantageous non-degrading memetics. Think of the uploaded brain as just a book with an intelligent query engine. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if we're able to make servants of uploaded brains it will be as vast a leap in human capability as when we got the written text. We gained the technology to pass ideas across time and hit a hockey stick in growth. If we gain the technology to increase that fidelity and permit querying informed by additional information? Making 10 copies of me, with varying plasticity, and then feeding them information to see if they find novel solutions to problems? Forget training a neural network to detect answers. Just emulate the brain and you get a never-tiring never-bored (since you can programmatically dopamine-train this being) eternal intelligent searcher who understands all your queries. ¹ Not strictly, since it's not a clone, but clones are shitty anyway since they're less capable of genetic adaptation.