Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine

Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by cblconfederate on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:38AM (#28211055)

We can send persons without sending humans. With a good enough brain-computer interface we should be able to duplicate our brain contents to a digital medium, which we know can travel to interstellar space and beyond

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by unionpivo on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:50PM (#28214045)

Complex computers break down too. It might well be true that any computer capable of approximated human intelligence is even more fragile than normal human.

I don't think we are capable building computer system (and that includes power system for running it) right now that would last few hundred years without any maintenance, even here on planet.

Or it would at least be very non trivial to build it

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by cblconfederate on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:51PM (#28214066)

we currently have at least 2 functioning computers in interstellar space that are 44 years old. I think we are already at a point that we can make centuries-lasting computers

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by croes on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:51AM (#28211199)

We are far away from such an interface and space travel takes still far too long. When the first probe reaches another galaxy mankind is probably already gone or we are back in post war dark ages.

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by cblconfederate on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:05PM (#28211381)

> space travel takes still far too long.

Who cares about humans, as a traveling satellite i will have all the time in the universe, literally

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by croes on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:39PM (#28213299)

And then? What the purpose of a conscience at a faraway planet? Something like We Are Legion (We Are Bob)?

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by cblconfederate on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:19PM (#28213746)

whats the purpose of conscience in this planet? purpose is not necessary, though one could say discovery is a purpose, boldly go where no man has gone before

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by 3520 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:09PM (#28211444)

I wonder if people will view it as sufficient that a digital copy of 'them' (or at least something identical to them at the point of copying) exists, despite their original biological minds eventually perishing.

It excites me to think about discovering the origin of our consciousness and being able to transfer that.

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by specialist on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:47AM (#28211157)

I definitely want to believe. Then we can explore other galaxies.

But I still can't even imagine what consciousness is.

Maybe we'll create new intelligences, punt on the consciousness question, and delegate the task to them.

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