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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by Joelexander on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:36PM (#20923697)
Not to get too bleak, but I could imagine a future where people upload their consciences to some server to continue work indefinitely. Your conscience could move from code base to code base ad infinitum.
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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by xkcd-sucks on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:47PM (#20923761)
But why bother with some average Joe's consciousness if you can clone a couple Carmacks, patch them to remove copy protection / willpower / whatever, and get "10x output"
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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by klipt on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:21PM (#20924784)
You could even get them to do boring grunt work by telling them it will lead to a promotion, then reset their memory so they don't realize the promotion never comes...
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Re:Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and ... by kimjongtrill on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:40PM (#20923721)
i am not even sure that 100% has to be a depressing notion
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