Posted on 01/19/2017 7:22:06 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
As part of my long-term strategy to achieve immortality, I’m building a permanent digital record of my life online. Someday there will be enough video, audio, biographical, and linguistic information about me to recreate me in software form. Maybe that future software will take into account my DNA too. Eventually there will be enough of a record of my life for future software programmers to recreate my voice, my preferences, my priorities, my thought processes, and even the way I move.
You might think I am not serious. But I totally am. The odds that I will someday be resurrected in software are probably close to 100% because the technology will no doubt exist and I’ll have the most complete digital record available for the researchers to experiment with. Or one of the most.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.dilbert.com ...
. . . so the plan is, basically, that the man plans to utterly zero out his privacy. Thereby making, in theory, a record which will enable future experimenters to synthesize how Scott Adams (RIP) would respond in the present even though he is now dead. And he calls this “immortality.” It puts me in mind of the long-ago roadside doggerel:SO YOU’RE INSURED REMEMBER KIDDO,
THEY DON’T PAY YOU
THEY PAY YOUR WIDOW.
BURMA SHAVE
IOW, he dreams of being seen - but (he assumes) he will not see.Immortality? Hardly.
I got a better plan for immortality and it includes
scraping this old body for a better one.
You can read all about it in some technical journals
by Matthew, Mark,Luke,and John. (Some guy already did it
and it works.)
heh heh :)
Increasingly, I long for the solace of eternal life with my Savior.
Well, for him, it might not be a big difference.
Any plan for immortality is by definition “long term”. ;-)
He’s providing the groundwork for the world’s most elaborate digital “statue.” All very well if he provides the marble for a statue of himself.But even at that, there is still the problem of the motivation of the sculptor. Who would not prefer to make that statue of someone he loves?
We might all consider how to cause people to love us as much as Scott Adams loves himself. Which would have to entail caring about others ourselves.
Starting, I suppose, with wishing Scott Adams well in his project of inspiring that sculptor . . .
It doesn’t matter how high the resolution, a picture of you, is not you.
Personally, I'd prefer to have a legacy with my family, not some digital screed.
For instance, I can see my grandkids, in the kitchen with their grandkids, saying, "Here's the pancake recipe I used to make with my grandpa, WBill. Lemme tell you about the time he and I....."
If that happens, I'd consider myself a success.
And who wants to talk to your artificial self? Heck I barely talk to my real relatives !
Who is going to pay to keep you around? A wife? what about when she re-marries ? think the new husband will want you around?
But lets assume you have a sole mate that will miss you for life... and will pay to keep you around to talk to for whatever reason for the length of their life..
then what?
Who is going to keep you around then? every one who actually knew you when you lived is dead, who is going to pay to keep you around then? maybe they could store you on a usb drive and your great grandchildren could pull you out once or twice for a family tree project.
Some people would rather go to the ends of the earth seeking an answer that is right outside their door.
The plan will work great until a 17 year old intern deletes the data to store porn, and they forgot to run a back up...
Precisely the point of my #8. Good post!
I hear you but it still gets forgotten with time.
I bet only 1 in 1,000 knows the name of his/her great, great, great grandfather/mother.
Go back a few more generations and the odds are far less.
Through Ancestry.com, I’ve been able to place my mother’s side of the family to the year 1,000 AD, and the family here came to America in 1632. BUT... I don’t know their nicknames, that is, what they liked to be called, their personalities, thoughts, foibles and triumphs... Just names on paper (or digital bits).
For my Dad, his parents came here in 1917, and he can only name his paternal Grandparents. Doesn’t even know his mother’s parents name. His mom was a Jew from the Russian empire, who got pogromed several times before escaping to Britain, met my Grandfather, another refuge from the Great War, and they left for America in December 1916. got torpedoed by a U-Boat off Newfoundland, but the ship survived and eventually made it to New York.
How did you do that? There must be royalty in there. Even with good church records we descendants of peasants can't get much before the Council of Trent. :)
Statistical analysis has shown that by the time you get to the Middle Ages, you are descended from just about everyone anyway. It was determined that every person of European descent today is a direct descendant of Charlemagne. Father of Europe indeed!
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