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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by incompatible on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:49PM (#16580979)
"Highly laborious process": I guess if the technology was available to preform this process, then automating it would be relatively easy. The materials that make up a human are cheap enough.

Edit: I read the article. So they are assuming in the future that they won't bother making a new human, but just load the brain state into a computer simulation, which would be even cheaper.

Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by mygo on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @10:18PM (#16581742)
Computers have yet to match many of the capabilities of the brain. Heck I have better image recognition when I’m drunk than all of Google’s image recognition nodes combined.

Could a computer host a human mind to its full capacity?

Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by joering2 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:28AM (#16582342)
Did you forget that any technology publicly known and available is about 20 years old? Im sure they are systems that can recognize image faster and more accurate than humans but its sort of a “product” you wont find by googling.
Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by dfee on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:20AM (#16582542)
I did not know this. I assumed certain technology is more advanced in private industry or classified governmental programs, but I was unaware that my iPhone X is effectively a 1997 device.
Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by incompatible on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @07:06AM (#16583802)
You can find research projects that haven't (yet) been commercialised. They exist only in prototype form that either isn't ready for mass production or isn't economically feasible. You see it all the time with things like memristors or the latest potential cure for cancer.
Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by dfee on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:31AM (#16584981)
Sure, but integration of technologies is a technology itself. And, that too must then be 20 years old.
Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by scotth on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:55AM (#16582665)
Sounds unlikely. Is there any evidence of this?
Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by dsl on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:45AM (#16582408)
Then enslave the mind to do work, to pay the hosting bills.
Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by incompatible on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:01PM (#16587792)
They'd presumably already have any number of superior minds, able to be spun up in whatever quantity required.