Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013)

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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