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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by the__alchemist on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:56PM (#28151193)
I'm with you on your core point, but in a way, it's orthogonal: Death will continue to be an inevitability, and can arrive at any time - even after we solve senescence. (Accidents, murder etc)
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:08PM (#28151330)
The endgame (a few hundred years from now) would be virtualizing consciousnesses and distributing them across space so only a cosmic disaster could end a being.
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by jacquesm on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:17PM (#28151407)
You've arrived at heaven and the afterlife through non-religious ways.
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by morticiansflame on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:45AM (#28152049)
There's an episode of Black Mirror for this - "San Junipero".
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:52AM (#28152099)
Definitely my favorite episode, and beautifully optimistic. I like how they flipped the script on the generic and easy "immortality bad" hot-take.
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by mLuby on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:38PM (#28163786)
Also a brilliant subversion of expectations, given how bleak the rest of the series is.
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by fossuser on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:59PM (#28151715)
Basically Permutation City: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by 8note on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:20AM (#28153557)
Still sounds like death to me.

The computer could be a near copy, but the actual me dies

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:50PM (#28160000)
You'd use something like gradual replacement to create a true transfer as opposed to a mere copy.
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