[ExI] The second step towards immortality

Martin Sustrik sustrik at 250bpm.com
Thu Jan 2 19:17:58 UTC 2014


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On 02/01/14 14:30, Alex Blainey wrote:

> hmm'kay. As many have already said this is not far from the concept
> of a foundation and something ive personally thought about, but
> with the more British version of a Trust. I came at the idea from a
> different angle, that of immortality through resurrection where the
> rights of the living, now dead person are protected or rather
> replaced by fiduciary obligation of the trust. In simple terms the
> model is something like, The person prior to death gives dna
> samples to be held on record and protected so they came be 
> recreated through cloning (if needed).
...

Same idea, however, as a central european and taking the last 100
years of history into account, I just wouldn't trust something like
Foundation ot Trust to survive for non-trivial amount of time. British
and American people, given their history, may be more relaxed about it
though.

> The problem with using someones online data as the foundation is
> that it never amounts to anything more than a persona or whole
> bunch of them with some shared character traits. My Extropian
> persona is nothing like my facebook, or other venues. Anyone trying
> to recreate me from them would have nothing like my real self.

Still better than substituting results of a standardised test for your
real self. Until we are able to scan human brain, the corpus of data
from social networks seem to be the best we have (information about
person's opinions, about their friends, photos of the past events,
favourite songs, daily rhytm etc.)

Martin

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