• The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    We’re all living in the times before consciousness can be preserved, but someone will figure out how to do it eventually.

    I don’t think it’s going to be Elon Musk.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We’re all living in the times before consciousness can be preserved

      It makes no sense.

      Nobody knows if that is going to happen at all. We only know that it has not happened yet.

      In the same way you can say that we’re all living in the times before our colony on Alpha Centauri takes us over.

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      1 year ago

      Or you’re living in the times after it already was, with the tech later being used to replicate the earlier state of the world, and just aren’t aware of it.

      Time isn’t necessarily linear.

      Especially when we’re discussing a local future involving merging human consciousness and AI.