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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by aaron_m04 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @09:20PM (#16581472)
What if it's cheaper to extract the key from your brain and dump the rest?
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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by earenndil on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:42PM (#16582092)
It's unclear that that's possible, though.
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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by onion2k on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:10AM (#16582908)
We're considering the funding implications of uploading a consciousness to storage and retrieving it later. None of it is possible.
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