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• Trottelreiner commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  Err, why be so boring? get a modular chatterbox, feed in some data, and voila, there is the uploaded mind. since a) quite a few of the usual suspects for uploading would fail the turing test, just look at the usual troll b) there would be a nontrivial overlap between the usual suspects and heavy social media users, e.g. much data to work from c) we could do a background check to weed out people with friends knowing real secrets it might work. if somebody does a test on real secrets, it might help to use some tricks used by...
• Trottelreiner commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  err, who's to say you can't upload kittens. plus you can create copies of your mind and the kittens in question to get the optimal numbers of kittens to crawl and instances of yourself doing the crawling......
• Trottelreiner commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  iirc there was a max headroom episode about a similar scam. and there it is... http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=4806...
• Nestor commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  It depends what you call a scam, according to a professor in the relevant sciences I asked, cutting your brain into fine slices and plastifying it is probably the best archival method for your headmeats we have with current technology. You could, with a perfectly straight face, offer this as a brain preservation technique awaiting a sufficiently high technology to recreate you in the future. For me, OGH and his fellow scribes have given me enough nightmares about what you can do with an upload that I'm rather glad neural tissue liquifies so quickly after death. It seems like a...
• RDSouth commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  I find that I go in cycles of a few months of sedentary creativity and intellectual curiosity alternating with a few months of physical activity and external exploration. I wonder if I get smartest just as I am most physically declining because the physical decline actually does something to make me smarter, or because physical activity makes me dumber (or a different kind of smart) or simply because you get on a roll and you get "in practice" at sitting and doing mental stuff. All my life I've tried to set up systems and regimens to motivate myself and routinize...