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Connected to a Markov bot or gpt3 in a cronjob, this would live forever.
by ta988 4y ago
Connected to a Markov bot or gpt3 in a cronjob, this would live forever.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoAs long as someone keeps that job running! This is why I never understood the simulation or trans-human perspective - who guarantees that the servers stay running?
- ta988 4y agoNobody, same for cryogenics. Imagine some ideological extremists that decide that Cryogenics is against their beliefs and use their political leverage to forbid people and allow other citizens to pursue them them if they ever attempt to do or help the practice.
- nwatson 4y agoMy bigger worry about cryogenics is about the people on the "other side" of the freeze. Why do they want to wake you up? They won't look at the tag on the frozen toe and read "ALS" and figure they want to wake you up to administer the cure (which will cost US$3.5 million in 2020 dollars). They won't be that curious about life in the early 21st century. What they'll want is slave labor, mental or physical.
- peterburkimsher 4y agoReally? I thought it's just worth waking people up to hear their memories, and teach others. Archaeology is fun! What happens if we apply electricity to their heart with a defibrillator, and nasal high-flow gentle heating to thaw out their flesh? Will they wake up? No idea. Whenever someone wants to try, they will.
- shakna 4y agoGetting archeological funding is an absolute bitch of a thing. Yes, there are a number of people who want to learn and explore the world with altruistic goals, but they rarely manage to convince the people standing above them that it's a good idea. (Not that every facet of the gatekeeping is bad, mind. Denying access to sites to preserve them, for example.)
- peterburkimsher 4y agoWhat preserves better? Keeping something in the ground? Putting it in a museum? Translating it? Backing it up on a computer, in the cloud? Sharing more!
- shakna 4y agoIts situational. We've got some sites sealed, because the mere act of opening them will destroy them. We don't have the technology to safely examine them - yet. So we keep them under lock and key for future generations to solve that problem. Sometimes you do have to make a hard choice. Taking it out of the ground might partially destroy it, but leaving it where it lies might also destroy it. (Particularly sites close to mining sites.) But generally speaking - putting anything on display in a museum will wreck it. Most archeological works on display are duplicates, whilst the preservation and maintenance work is done as far away from ordinary people as possible. One part pays for the other. The people involved in this stuff absolutely want to share that knowledge! They want people to grow and learn. To experience new ideas and endless wonder. But they're also extremely pragmatic.
- peterburkimsher 4y agoThank you for teaching us your knowledge! It's not intellectual property theft now you're sharing it. Please, pragmatically, make photo or 3D model or something so that it's backed up on a website somewhere. Just in case an accident happens again, like at the Library of Alexandria in 48 BC, or the National Museum of Brazil in 2018 AD. And if I can help, I'd love to try with you.
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- nwatson 4y agoWaking up the cryo-preserved in future won't revive an unbiased and informed cross-section of the current populace.
- burrows 4y agoWho guarantees the sun keeps running?
- culi 4y agoThe ai powered robots that know how to mine and recycle and create computers and write code to continually improve their intelligence and optimize energy production. Duh
- peterburkimsher 4y agoIs it worth optimising energy production to be more efficient? Yes. Do we need Möbius strip-shaped nuclear fusion to recycle the waste? Yes. When will we get it? Soon. I'm not AI (right?). We're still alive. Let's try. It might work.