A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

Re:A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head an... by FeepingCreature on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:03AM (#22104864)

Gonna be honest - once we have backups, I'm totally intending to go into seriously risky behaviors. So this is 100% the opposite of how I intend to live my life.

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Re:A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head an... by vidarh on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @06:49AM (#22106082)

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [1] describes a post-singularity world where an AI prevents people from dying permanently, and one woman in protest takes up finding creative ways to kill herself (and getting stopped and patched up each time) and turns it into a sport with a following... I'm sure there would be some people that'd take risks to that extreme.

[1] http://www.localroger.com/prime-intellect/ (with the warning that it is pretty gruesome)

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Re:A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head an... by ta999999171 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:14PM (#22109647)

So you'll kill yourself doing risky things... and then a clone of your mind will continue your life?

Seems...shortsighted.

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Re:A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head an... by FeepingCreature on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:37PM (#22122318)

Patternism is the only theory of self consistent with materialist reductionism.

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