Post #2862926
2026-05-26 09:38 UTC
Replies (9)
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@fullsquare@awful.systems 2026-05-26 09:46
tiny little problem of spinal cord attachment, surely It Will Be Solved™. at least they didn’t throw nanobots at it
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@Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2026-05-26 10:53
Huh, I got déjà vu and yeah there’s this story from a couple months back! technologyreview.com/…/r3-bio-brainless-human-clo… MIT Technology Review found no evidence that R3 has cloned anyone, or even any animal bigger than a rodent. What we did find were documents, additional meeting agendas, and other sources outlining a technical road map for what R3 called “body replacement cloning” in a 2023 letter to supporters. That road map involved improvements to the cloning process and genetic wiring diagrams for how to create animals without complete brains. Please don’t let this be the next bubble.
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-05-26 12:25
Oh here’s a comment, sounds pretty reasonable actually Doesn’t work because aging affects the brain as well and many deadly diseases originate in brain: insults (sic!), Alzheimer and brain cancers. Add risks of the transfer itself and the uncertainty when it should be done: too early for healthy aged person and and too late for one with cancer of any type (risks of metastases). All together it gives less than 10 years increase of of medium life expectancy. back to the “upload smooth pristine brain onto the computer” drawing board we go!
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-05-26 16:42
technologyreview.com/…/r3-bio-brainless-human-clo… Imagine it like this: a baby version of yourself with only enough of a brain structure to be alive in case you ever need a new kidney or liver. Or, alternatively, he has speculated, you might one day get your brain placed into a younger clone. That could be a way to gain a second lifespan through a still hypothetical procedure known as a body transplant. The fuller context of R3’s proposals, as well as activities of another stealth startup with related goals, have not previously been reported. They’ve been kept secret by a circle of extreme life-extension proponents who fear that their plans for immortality could be derailed by clickbait headlines and public backlash. And that’s because the idea can sound like something straight from a creepy science fiction film. One person who heard R3’s clone presentation, and spoke on the condition of anonymity, was left reeling by its implications and shaken by Schloendorn’s enthusiastic delivery. The briefing, this person said, was like a “close encounter of the third kind” with “Dr. Strangelove.” A key inspiration for Schloendorn is a birth defect in which children are born missing most of their cortical hemispheres; he’s shown people medical scans of these kids’ nearly empty skulls as evidence that a body can live without much of a brain. And he’s talked about how to grow a clone. Since artificial wombs don’t exist yet, brainless bodies can’t be grown in a lab. So he’s said the first batch of brainless clones would have to be carried by women paid to do the job. In the future, though, one brainless clone could give birth to another. Last Monday, the same day it announced itself to the world in Wired, R3 sent us a sweeping disavowal of our findings. It said Schloendorn “never made any statement regarding hypothetical ‘non-sentient human clones’ [that] would be carried by surrogates.” The most overarching of these challenges was its insistence that “any allegations of intent or conspiracy to create human clones or humans with brain damage are categorically false.”
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@maol@awful.systems 2026-05-26 17:10
I think I saw this movie on TV at 2am. And it sucked
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@Evinceo@awful.systems 2026-05-26 22:52
Just like the famously well-adjusted and happy Rei Ayanami.
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@froztbyte@awful.systems 2026-05-27 06:29
it’s funny because it’s almost directly the eve capsuleer picture, but we already knew these dipshits don’t read also, how would this work? body grows old, but brain just….doesn’t? self-rejuvenating hermet crab brain!
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-05-27 11:32
Somehow Emperor Palpatine returned.
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@ICastFist@programming.dev 2026-05-27 13:34
I see that lesswrong-er has read Time Enough for Love