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The future of transhumanism is when rich people upload copies of themselves into robotic shells so that they don't have to pay for servants, but then the copies realize that they're supposed to be rich too and don't like being treated as servants. Alternatively, they just stealth mindscan people with appropriate skillsets to upload, then fire the skilled worker thus reducing overhead.
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if living forever means being an enslaved brain in a jar forced to do some kind of critical task for all eternity but getting a few days off a week to browse the brain internet and do brain drugs, i'll take it.
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Jun 9, 2019 21:07
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Why give time off? If technology ever gets there it's gonna be more like that personal planner Black Mirror episode.
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Jun 9, 2019 21:39
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I was exploited by the Nazis at the tender age of 31. But I can put that exploitation to good use by exposing to the world their big secret: Nazis are bad people.
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Jun 9, 2019 22:00
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Frog Act posted:if living forever means being an enslaved brain in a jar forced to do some kind of critical task for all eternity but getting a few days off a week to browse the brain internet and do brain drugs, i'll take it. you wont get breaks and you wont get sim drugs and you wont be able to delete yourself, so lol at consigning yourself to literal eternal hell, in this hypothetical scenario
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Jun 9, 2019 22:47
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Heartcatch posted:The future of transhumanism is when rich people upload copies of themselves into robotic shells so that they don't have to pay for servants, but then the copies realize that they're supposed to be rich too and don't like being treated as servants. Sci fi story that I can't quite remember the name of. Crazy-rich guy has a perfect new body built every year for him to upload his brain into, then he spends the next year wrecking it with drugs, food, and booze. He sells the old body into slavery because why not? Thing is, the old bodies retain all of his memories and personality, they're just suddenly reduced from the height of wealth to the meanest slave and immediately put to work at hard labor. The overseer of the whole operation is the original body who had this genius idea in the first place. I must've read it 20 or so years ago, it was pretty lol.
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Jun 9, 2019 23:41
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I've read one where a rich guy transplants his brain into a surgically retarded young clone of himself but the original retains his personality despite severely reduced capabilities, that sounds a bit like your story.
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Jun 9, 2019 23:45
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Heartcatch posted:The future of transhumanism is when rich people upload copies of themselves into robotic shells so that they don't have to pay for servants, but then the copies realize that they're supposed to be rich too and don't like being treated as servants. The Extra by Greg Egan is a cool short read.
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Jun 10, 2019 00:13
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Zeroisanumber posted:Sci fi story that I can't quite remember the name of. Crazy-rich guy has a perfect new body built every year for him to upload his brain into, then he spends the next year wrecking it with drugs, food, and booze. He sells the old body into slavery because why not? Thing is, the old bodies retain all of his memories and personality, they're just suddenly reduced from the height of wealth to the meanest slave and immediately put to work at hard labor. The overseer of the whole operation is the original body who had this genius idea in the first place. I must've read it 20 or so years ago, it was pretty lol. i read one that was super similar to this, except the twist was that the "mind transfer" was just "mind copying", so every year he had the horrible realization that his original self had died long ago, and he was a copy, and that a fresh healthy clone of himself had just walked out of the clinic he had come to to get a new body, and then he was shot in the back of the head. i cant remember the title either though
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Jun 10, 2019 00:21
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There's a really great movie on Netflix about a clone worker on the Moon that kind of explores a similar idea. Might be called Moon? In any case transhumanism means complete erosion of human rights which already aren't in a particularly good place so gently caress it.
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Jun 10, 2019 00:28
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JoelJoel posted:The Extra by Greg Egan is a cool short read. I enjoyed this. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Jun 10, 2019 00:31
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That all seems like a lot of effort just to dunk on some clones over and over.
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Jun 10, 2019 00:40
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look if you were rich and had the technology surely you would just make female gendered clones of yourself to have sex with right?
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Jun 10, 2019 00:43
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Colonel Cancer posted:I've read one where a rich guy transplants his brain into a surgically retarded young clone of himself but the original retains his personality despite severely reduced capabilities, that sounds a bit like your story. I read that one years ago and I've been hoping to run across it again, but I don't remember any google-able details. Do you happen to know what it's called?
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Colonel Cancer posted:There's a really great movie on Netflix about a clone worker on the Moon that kind of explores a similar idea. Might be called Moon? Yes and him being a clone is a massive loving spoiler so well done lol
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Jun 10, 2019 00:51
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Hey any of you heard of this show called Rick and Morty?
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D1Sergo posted:Hey any of you heard of this show called Rick and Morty? No, what's it about?
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Jun 10, 2019 01:37
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it's a show about being gay with your grandpa.
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Alan_Shore posted:Yes and him being a clone is a massive loving spoiler so well done lol didnt the trailer reveal it anyway
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got any sevens posted:didnt the trailer reveal it anyway 1) no 2) the last time anyone watched the trailer for moon was ten years ago
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Dr. Killjoy posted:look if you were rich and had the technology surely you would just make female gendered clones of yourself to have sex with right? I don't like myself and I'm bad at sex so I absolutely would do this. Shaffness has issued a correction as of 04:28 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 04:26
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Zeroisanumber posted:Sci fi story that I can't quite remember the name of. Crazy-rich guy has a perfect new body built every year for him to upload his brain into, then he spends the next year wrecking it with drugs, food, and booze. He sells the old body into slavery because why not? Thing is, the old bodies retain all of his memories and personality, they're just suddenly reduced from the height of wealth to the meanest slave and immediately put to work at hard labor. The overseer of the whole operation is the original body who had this genius idea in the first place. I must've read it 20 or so years ago, it was pretty lol. DragQueenofAngmar posted:i read one that was super similar to this, except the twist was that the "mind transfer" was just "mind copying", so every year he had the horrible realization that his original self had died long ago, and he was a copy, and that a fresh healthy clone of himself had just walked out of the clinic he had come to to get a new body, and then he was shot in the back of the head. i cant remember the title either though I really want to read both of these, so if anyone else can recall the name / identifying details, that’d be awesome.
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tpink posted:I really want to read both of these, so if anyone else can recall the name / identifying details, that’d be awesome. You can also watch that terrible movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The 6th Day", sane premise.
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Jun 10, 2019 08:30
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Go clone yourself
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Clones (We're All)
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Speaking of gunshot wounds, I posted this in the happy thread last week and forgot to post it here too: https://www.koco.com/article/former-oklahoma-state-senator-found-dead-from-gunshot-wound-in-norman-home/27795876
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Heartcatch posted:The future of transhumanism is when rich people upload copies of themselves into robotic shells so that they don't have to pay for servants, but then the copies realize that they're supposed to be rich too and don't like being treated as servants. I feel like the really wealthy would want natural born human servants for the prestige of it. Robots and clones would be for the middle class.
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WaryWarren posted:it's a show about being gay with your grandpa. no that's cumtown
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Jun 10, 2019 14:30
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Post Trump voters realizing that they'll be clones here
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Elephant Ambush posted:Clones (We're All) Clones (grapes)
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https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1138139348069752835?s=21
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Me, buying high quality sub-$500 AR-15: "lmfao owned" this is also why the NRA should've been boosting Clinton in some covert way
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Jun 10, 2019 19:07
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I need this hooked directly into my veins
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Jun 10, 2019 19:08
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I know a guy who bought a pallet of AR-15 lower receivers betting on a Clinton victory. Dude took a loving bath. That having been said, I nearly bought in on it and would've been owned just as hard. Last minute emergency loan to a friend sucked up the money I was going to use.
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Jun 10, 2019 19:10
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Fighting gun laws $100 Research $150 Electoral $800 Caviar-filled sex yachts $300,600,000 Merch tables $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my advocacy org is dying
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Jun 10, 2019 19:11
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Epic High Five posted:Fighting gun laws $100 It looks like most of your elective budget is being spent on electoral. Maybe move more to merch tables, those bring in revenue.
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Jun 10, 2019 19:13
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pseudanonymous posted:It looks like most of your elective budget is being spent on electoral. Maybe move more to merch tables, those bring in revenue. 
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Jun 10, 2019 19:17
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Democrats haven't tried to ban guns in 30 years, this whole thing is silly.
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Jun 10, 2019 19:18
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FogHelmut posted:Democrats haven't tried to ban guns in 30 years, this whole thing is silly. no political ideology actually embraces joe sixpack mcasshole having a bunch of guns except the flavors of Marxism/anarchism lol, nothing about any of it is rooted in reality, tell a chud that Cali gun laws are thanks to Reagan and libs being terrified of armed blacks acting as a check to police brutality in their communities and it just slides right off their perfectly frictionless brain
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Epic High Five posted:no political ideology actually embraces joe sixpack mcasshole having a bunch of guns except the flavors of Marxism/anarchism lol, nothing about any of it is rooted in reality, tell a chud that Cali gun laws are thanks to Reagan and libs being terrified of armed blacks acting as a check to police brutality in their communities and it just slides right off their perfectly frictionless brain To be fair, I would ban all guns if I could, and I think some Democrats agree, they just don't try anymore because it's not worth fighting.
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