I’m afraid you’ve totally lost me at this point. Saving mammoths?? Why??
And are you seriously suggesting that we can resurrect dead people whose brains have completely decayed? What?
And what is this about saving humans first? No, we don’t have to save every human first, we theoretically only need to save enough so that the process of (whatever you’re trying to accomplish?) can continue. If we are strictly welfare-maximizing without arbitrary speciesism, it may mean prioritizing saving some of the existing animals over every human currently (although this may be unlikely).
To be clear, I certainly understand that you aren’t saying you only care about saving your own life, but the post gives off those kinds of vibes nonetheless.
Unless you’re collecting data for an EA forum simulator (not IRB approved) I would consider disengaging in some situations. Some posts probably aren’t going to first place as a red team prize.
What if we can develop future technology to read all the vibrations emanated from the earth from all of human history...the earliest ones will be farther out, the most recent ones near...then we can filter through them and recreate everything that ever happened on earth, effectively watching what happened in the past...and maybe even to the level of brain waves of each human, thus we could resurrect all previously dead humans by gathering their brain waves and everything they ever said...presumably once re-animated they could gain memory of things missed and reconstruct themselves further. Of course we could do this with all extinct animals too.
This really becomes a new version of heaven. For the religious; what if this was G-d’s plan, not to give us a heaven but for us to create one with the minds we have (or have been given) this being the resurrection...maybe G-d’s not egoistic and doesn’t care if we acknowledge the originating gift meaning atheism is just fine. We do know love doesn’t seek self benefit so that would fit well since “G-d is love”. I like being both religious and atheist at the same time, which I am.
I would like to thank turchin the author for inspiring this idea in me for it is truly blowing my mind. Please let me know of other writings on this.
I’m afraid you’ve totally lost me at this point. Saving mammoths?? Why??
And are you seriously suggesting that we can resurrect dead people whose brains have completely decayed? What?
And what is this about saving humans first? No, we don’t have to save every human first, we theoretically only need to save enough so that the process of (whatever you’re trying to accomplish?) can continue. If we are strictly welfare-maximizing without arbitrary speciesism, it may mean prioritizing saving some of the existing animals over every human currently (although this may be unlikely).
To be clear, I certainly understand that you aren’t saying you only care about saving your own life, but the post gives off those kinds of vibes nonetheless.
Unless you’re collecting data for an EA forum simulator (not IRB approved) I would consider disengaging in some situations. Some posts probably aren’t going to first place as a red team prize.
I am serious about resurrection of the dead, there are several ways, including running the simulation of the whole history of mankind and filling the knowledge gaps with random noise which, thanks to Everett, will be correct in one of the branches. I explained this idea in longer article: You Only Live Twice: A Computer Simulation of the Past Could be Used for Technological Resurrection
What if we can develop future technology to read all the vibrations emanated from the earth from all of human history...the earliest ones will be farther out, the most recent ones near...then we can filter through them and recreate everything that ever happened on earth, effectively watching what happened in the past...and maybe even to the level of brain waves of each human, thus we could resurrect all previously dead humans by gathering their brain waves and everything they ever said...presumably once re-animated they could gain memory of things missed and reconstruct themselves further. Of course we could do this with all extinct animals too.
This really becomes a new version of heaven. For the religious; what if this was G-d’s plan, not to give us a heaven but for us to create one with the minds we have (or have been given) this being the resurrection...maybe G-d’s not egoistic and doesn’t care if we acknowledge the originating gift meaning atheism is just fine. We do know love doesn’t seek self benefit so that would fit well since “G-d is love”. I like being both religious and atheist at the same time, which I am.
I would like to thank turchin the author for inspiring this idea in me for it is truly blowing my mind. Please let me know of other writings on this.
I wrote two articles about resurrection: You Only Live Twice: A Computer Simulation of the Past Could be Used for Technological Resurrection
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Classification of Approaches to Technological Resurrection