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Would be hilarious if it turns out that Russia or China stumbled upon some new physics principle and started developing experimental aircraft based on it (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We definitely have a series of breakthroughs needed before I can see any possibility of human consciousness uploads, to say nothing of the resources required to simulate that intelligence. Any simulation of intelligence requires resources, it may be plausible that we can bring the resources required below the resources for keeping a human alive. That being said, I'm not sure it's the only logical progression of technology.

I'm partial to the concept of artificial realities presented in the "Culture" book series.

In that series, the biological population in the "Culture society" is well educated, truly free and provided anything they could want by purpose built extremely compassionate AI. Then simulated world's are primarily an afterlife or an alternative to the physical world.

They also had artificial intelligence and uploaded biological intelligence interact with the physical world through robotic presences.

There were some interesting concepts that came out of that, like highly religious societies producing horrific "Hell" afterlife when they realized that metaphysical afterlifes were not experimentally verifiable.

I had issues with some of the takes of the author, but it was an interesting read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I expect that uploading human minds is a very tricky problem indeed, and wouldn't expect that happening in the foreseeable future. However, I do think we may be able to create artificial intelligence on the same principles our brains operate on before that. The key part is that I expect this will happen very quickly in terms of cosmic timescales as opposed to human ones. Even if it takes a century or a millennium do to, that's a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things.

I found Culture series was fun, a few other examples I could recommend would be The Lifecycle of Artificial Objects by Ted Chiang, Diaspora by Greg Egan and Life Artificial by David A. Eubanks, and Inverted Frontier by Linda Nagata.