Cyberpunk: Digital and Genetic Immortality

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35788050/dyson-sphere-digital-resurrection-immortality/
https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/332066-digital-immortality-turchin


Gene manipulation the far more likely path to immortality,
given a focus on biomedical research, now readily achievable
within a lifetime, and being financed with Bitcoin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality



Researchers Believe It's Possible To Become Immortal

Might future humans resurrect the dead?

Well, Russian researchers Alexey Turchin and Maxim Chernyakov, who
belong to the transhumanism movement, wrote a paper explaining the
"roadmap to immortality" that involves superintelligent AI systems
powered by Dyson spheres as the primary technology might someday make
resurrection possible.

Turchin and Chernyakov wrote, "there no evidence of an afterlife. But
there's also no proof that medical death is the end of subjective
experience, or that death is irreversible, or immortality impossible."

The paper, which Popular Mechanics first reported, is titled
"Classification of Approaches to Technological Resurrection," which
offers a roadmap to immortality.

"Death seems to be a permanent event, but there is no actual proof of
its irreversibility," the authors write. And "while no method is
currently possible, many…may become feasible with future technological
development."

Turchin and Chernyakov examine both conventional and future
technologies of making humanity immortal, from cryogenics to uploading
brains onto the cloud then transplanted into clone bodies. They said
"strong AI" will be the most critical technology to download the
brain's contents, but that technology could years away.

    "The development of AI is going rather fast, but we are still far
away from being able to 'download' a human into a computer," Turchin
told Russia Beyond. "If we want to do it with a good probability of
success, then count on [the year] 2600, to be sure."

The authors said the power supply behind the AI would be so powerful
that it would need a "Dyson spheres," a megastructure of solar panels
that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power
output.

The paper describes life as a "continued stream of subjective
experiences" and death as an end of that stream. Immortality, to the
researchers, is a "life stream without end," and resurrection is the
"continuation of that same stream of experiences after an arbitrarily
long gap."

Digital immortality is inevitable...