Would you give up your immortality
to ensure the success of a posthuman
world?

Reason Online July 27, 2007

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On Wednesday at TransVision 2007,
Marvin Minsky puckishly suggested we
could solve any population problem
by uploading the minds of 10 billion
people and running them on a
computer that occupies a few cubic
meters and costs only a few hundred
dollars to run. Ray Kurzweil claimed
that longevity trends are
accelerating so fast that the life...

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Freezing or Uploading?

Reason Online July 26, 2007

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Which road to immortality would you
choose? At TransVision 2007 last
week, Terasem Foundation founder
Martine Rothblatt discussed
"Cybernetic Biostasis." The idea is
that people should be creating
digital mindfiles throughout their
lives that could be used to revive
them by means of mindware when
sufficiently strong artificial
intelligence is...

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