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clevergrrrl

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5. That's the big debate among the transhumanists

Reply to Intractable (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 05:15 PM

Oct 2025

If you "download your soul into a computer" is that really you or a copy of you and how would you even know the difference? I think the current crop of Billionaire immortalists have asked that question and just don't care as long as something or some semblance of their consciousness survives.

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Billionaires Endgame [View all] clevergrrrl Oct 2025 OP

Yes they have some sort of end game along these lines. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #1

"Why not let the peasants live a bit longer in ignorant bliss?" clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #2

Yes of course. They are done sharing THEIR resources. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #16

Just now reading Ed Zitron's latest erronis Oct 2025 #17

Jebus. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #19

As many have said, the AI bubble will put the 1929 crash and 2008 subprime mortgage debacle to shame. erronis Oct 2025 #20

And not a damn thing we can do about it. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #21

Anybody watch Alien:Earth? JBTaurus83 Oct 2025 #3

They have had a lot of practice clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #6

As a matter of semantics, if you can download your mind/brain/self/soul into a set of memory banks ... Intractable Oct 2025 #4

That's the big debate among the transhumanists clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #5

If you were fully aware JBTaurus83 Oct 2025 #7

I've always thought it was a ridiculous notion. clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #9

They can't even JBTaurus83 Oct 2025 #11

Ironically, all they're really perpetuating are their egos misanthrope Oct 2025 #14

Not very practical. dickthegrouch Oct 2025 #8

Yup, like playing a videogame clevergrrrl Oct 2025 #10

Billionaires should fear their souls, they can't control or change it. pwb Oct 2025 #12

One caveat misanthrope Oct 2025 #13

Ira Levin canetoad Oct 2025 #15

As frightening as all that sounded to me when I first read about Yarvin, Thiel, et.al... Marie Marie Oct 2025 #18

Is that living? Would we really want to live forever? Why? IcyPeas Oct 2025 #22

Seriously r�is�n_dubh Oct 2025 #24

Bizarrely, magats conflate transhumanism with transgenderism. TommyT139 Oct 2025 #23