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Less than 1 percent embraced the idea that people might avoid death altogether. Actually wasn't Kurzweil promoting the idea of a downloadable brain? Is this ju

by stfu 14y ago

Less than 1 percent embraced the idea that people might avoid death altogether. Actually wasn't Kurzweil promoting the idea of a downloadable brain? Is this just wishful thinking or is there actually any hope for that? This would be somewhat an acceptable alternative, i.e. to live forever as a digital element. Otherwise I guess by best try is still with the cryonic guys.

sp332 14y ago
Aubrey de Grey cataloged 7 main ways people age, and he thinks we can fight all of them. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81752 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81752 So we could live (more or less) naturally, and stop aging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...
- kanzure 14y ago
  or instead of wikipedia maybe just read some papers: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/Aubrey/ http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/Aubrey/ http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/aubrey.jpg http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/aubrey.jpg
reasonattlm 14y ago
Uploading is an expensive way to reproduce; it doesn't solve the problem at hand. You'd want a slow ongoing replacement and integration process of switching out neurons for machinery to achieve the translation of the mind to a machine substrate without either creating a copy or engaging in suicide. e.g. see thoughts here: http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/19/the-million-year-life-span/ http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/19/the-million-year-life-sp... Rejuvenation biotechnology of the sort put forward in great detail by the SENS Foundation and others is a much better prospect than cryonics for those who can wait for its advent, but that will require much greater investments in research - i.e. hundreds of millions or billions in funding rather than the present paltry few millions a year. http://sens.org/sens-research/research-themes http://sens.org/sens-research/research-themes

by stfu 14y ago

sp332 14y ago

Aubrey de Grey cataloged 7 main ways people age, and he thinks we can fight all of them. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81752 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81752 So we could live (more or less) naturally, and stop aging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negligible_Senescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...

kanzure 14y ago
or instead of wikipedia maybe just read some papers: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/Aubrey/ http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/Aubrey/ http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/aubrey.jpg http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/aubrey.jpg

reasonattlm 14y ago

Uploading is an expensive way to reproduce; it doesn't solve the problem at hand. You'd want a slow ongoing replacement and integration process of switching out neurons for machinery to achieve the translation of the mind to a machine substrate without either creating a copy or engaging in suicide. e.g. see thoughts here: http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/19/the-million-year-life-span/ http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/19/the-million-year-life-sp... Rejuvenation biotechnology of the sort put forward in great detail by the SENS Foundation and others is a much better prospect than cryonics for those who can wait for its advent, but that will require much greater investments in research - i.e. hundreds of millions or billions in funding rather than the present paltry few millions a year. http://sens.org/sens-research/research-themes http://sens.org/sens-research/research-themes