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"I want to live forever in AI" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"I want to live forever in AI"

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

would've made more sense if it was rust

(or is the copy intential here?)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plottwist: consciousness is : Copy

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Whats the difference between void fn(Type& var) and void fn(Type* var)?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I guess you ask for C++. There Type* can be null while Type& can't be null. When it gets compiled Type& is compiled (mostly) to the same machinecode as Type*.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sends original data vs making a copy of data and sending it.

In meme context you'd be just making a copy of your consciousness and putting it in a machine. Whatever reason you're doing it for - escape illness, survive armageddon, nothing changes for you. A copy of you lives on though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, just kill the host as soon as the upload is complete. at best you are not conscious during the process and when "you" wake up you are in the cloud. The version of you that awakes gets told that the "transfer" was complete.