Post #1895230

2026-04-13 20:54 UTC

I don&#39;t think we talk enough about how one of the reasons the tech oligarchs are pushing so hard for AI expansion is that they think it&#39;s their path to immortality. They can just upload their consciousness into a computer and live forever.

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@mitch@hachyderm.io 2026-04-13 20:57

@aleen@wandering.shop I wonder why the billionaires think superintelligence, once achieved, will obey them.

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@xinmyname@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 21:18

@aleen@wandering.shop I have so many thoughts on this, but I think the biggest problem is they ignore the fiction in “science-fiction”.

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@ultranurd@tacobelllabs.net 2026-04-13 21:32

@aleen@wandering.shop I can maybe buy that someday you could make a thing that looks and sounds like a specific person but it obviously wouldn't be that person??

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@devtrope@hachyderm.io 2026-04-14 02:09

@aleen@wandering.shop Until we “accidentally “ trip over the MagSafe power cable.

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@twasink@aus.social 2026-04-14 13:10

@aleen@wandering.shop Which is kind of nuts. Assuming that we can copy a consciousness, it's just that - a copy. It's not _them_. If consciousness if just the emergent property of a bunch of neurons, then it's not separable _from_ those neurons. Even if we get perfect brain/machine interface, it won't be a shared consciousness - at _best_ it would be two synced conciousnessses. And if you assume that it's something distinct from that emergent property, and veer into the territory of a soul – why would it be something that could ensoul a machine? I'm willing to be believe that we may _someday_ be able to create machines that can learn and think. I'm willing to believe that we may be able to capture, record, and transfer memories. I'm even willing to believe that we could create an artificial intelligence that retains a person's memory and personality. But it won't be them - it'll be something else.

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