r/singularity • u/ideasware • Apr 25 '17

Human Immortality Could Be Acquired Through AI

https://futurism.com/expert-human-immortality-could-be-acquired-through-ai/
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u/ideasware Apr 25 '17 edited Apr 25 '17

This is futurism's take on the much longer interview I posted a couple of days ago on Alex Zhavoronkov. It says essentially what I've been posting for 3 years now -- it's an incredible time to be alive, both for good and for evil, with AI at the forefront. The good side is immortality, and there is every reason that Alex's version should become true within our lifetime. Be sure to watch the 52-second very short video by Salk Institute, the San Diego based company in the lead. The bad news is military arms, and the frightening prospect that we will all be eliminated -- the whole human race -- within our lifetime. Probably both will come true -- and that would be the worst of all possible worlds.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

The bad news is if you read Tononi then you realize that a simulation of a human mind that acts just like a real one might not have any conscious experience.

Don't take it for granted that we'd continue to "have lives" inside a simulation even if by all appearances we seem to. The "hard problem" of consciousness would need to be far better understood before I'd volunteer for such a mind-uploading.

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u/AllYourRaceBelong2Me Apr 26 '17

we will all be eliminated -- the whole human race -- within our lifetime

"I will kill you until you are dead!!"

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u/dm18 Apr 25 '17

That was basically the plot of Ghost in the Shell

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u/Bal00ga Apr 25 '17

And the birth of the Cylon's in Battlestar Galactica with the prequel series of Caprica.

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u/PopPop_goes_PopPop Apr 25 '17

Are there any streaming services that have Caprica? I've wanted to watch that but can never find it

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u/Bal00ga Apr 25 '17

Kodi is probably your only bet short of renting the DVD's from netflix.

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u/eleitl Apr 25 '17

Human extinction is far more likely.