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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by jjr8 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @06:07PM (#16580309)
Hmm, interesting. Assuming resurrecting you was easier than picking your brain, there would be the problem of you lying, both when you died and after you were brought back to life. How would they deal with that?

I guess they could just kill you again. But would the threat of that happening in the future deter you from lying at time of death, when you have nothing else to lose?

It seems like there would need to be system of proving possession of a password that would have to last 100 years. I have not thought through this kind of scenario (sorry!). Perhaps this has been considered before by those studying the problem in detail (e.g. science fiction authors)? What are the solutions?

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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by dhimes on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @06:18PM (#16580379)
Or the conjugate problem: people bringing you back before they really have the capability to do it well, and having you be some sort of invalid/derelict version of yourself. That's terrifying to me.
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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by sowbug on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @06:25PM (#16580415)
You're describing public-key cryptography. Sign a message to prove you know a private key that also authorizes the release of funds. This happens to be exactly the functionality of Bitcoin.

It is debatable whether known public-key cryptography systems will survive attack for the amount of time under discussion here.

I suspect the hack will be to extract the secret from the brain being resurrected, recover the funds, and toss the brain in the trash.

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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by notahacker on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @08:42PM (#16581291)
A future in which adequately restoring the running processes of the 100 billion neurons of a partly-deteriorated human brain shorn of its body is less difficult than cracking early 2000s public key cryptography sounds like a future sufficiently unlikely to discount when making future plans...
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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by sowbug on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:05PM (#16623674)
The comment you're replying to made the same point.
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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by incompatible on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:43PM (#16580935)
It's pretty unlikely that any particular system like Bitcoin will still be around in 100 years. It would be difficult to think of any investment that will still be worth something in 100 years. Buried gold perhaps?
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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by sowbug on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:04PM (#16623666)
Being able to upload a mind is effectively the same as immortality. I doubt wealth matters at all to immortal beings.
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