Immortality

[QI 541]

Can't eat
Can't jerk off

No thanks

 

[FemalePresident]

Would you take immortality in the form of having your mind transferred into a robotic body?

Can I design the robot?

I mean, in my opinion immortality is a good deal. But there's always a catch. I won't like to be trapped inside something like the RoboCop 2 lol I want something more practical.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I think this Whomp! comic sums it up well:

But anyway no because I wouldn't want a robot with cloned memories because it doesn't help me at all, I don't get why anyone would think consciousness would transfer over too.

 

[Tempest]

how would one know they're immortal? they'd have to live forever

 

[AnOminous]

There's no point if everyone else becomes a robot too. You'll eventually just end up getting drafted into being cannon fodder in some kind of future robot war that will be 10X as violent as regular human wars.

That actually sounds pretty awesome. Maybe you could have a robots vs. skeletons war.

 

[ERROR_ENTRY]

Being immortal is one of my worst nightmares

Think about it, what if you get fed up of living? There'd be no escape.
Also, the heat death of the universe and other disasters would destroy earth millions of years down the line... so would you drift in space forever?

 

[Male Idiot]

Sounds like a good deal! Do we get pokeymons evil gods?

 

[GeorgeDaMoose]

Being immortal is one of my worst nightmares

Think about it, what if you get fed up of living? There'd be no escape.
Also, the heat death of the universe and other disasters would destroy earth millions of years down the line... so would you drift in space forever?

Well the topic is about robot immortality. You could probably bash your head in or go out Terminator 2 style (without being dragged back for sequels, prequels, and such hopefully) and die that way. Also you'd eventually run out of energy or you'd just degrade over time.
Anyways, if all of this didn't happen and you were a super robot then you most likely wouldn't have to worry about being alone while immortal because chances are there are other super robots too. Shit could be fun.

 

[c-no]

No, death is a fitting end for a human. And besides, what if the robotic body was then destroyed by the expanding sun?

That or said robotic body were to break down and no one was there to help.

 

[ZeCommissar]

No, get me off of this world when my time comes. The only reason I would live forever is to sit around and learn everything I can comprehend about the universe.

I see death as the final part of the human experience, and not dying makes you less human.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Being immortal is one of my worst nightmares

Think about it, what if you get fed up of living? There'd be no escape.
Also, the heat death of the universe and other disasters would destroy earth millions of years down the line... so would you drift in space forever?

The question is being immortal, not invincibility. If you want to die, just become an hero, jump into a volcano or simply mossberg the CPU

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

You know that thing where you lay in agony in a hospital bed until you stop existing, and can't think or feel ever again? Yeah, I'd like to avoid that.

 

[AnOminous]

But anyway no because I wouldn't want a robot with cloned memories because it doesn't help me at all, I don't get why anyone would think consciousness would transfer over too.

That cartoon pretty much expresses the scenario the LessWrong tards envision as awesome.

 

[Ebola]

The process of moving your mind into a machine would destroy your mind and instantly kill your brain, just like Capetian Kirk dies every time he uses the transporter. But you are in no way dying or creating a clone, you are literally transferring your soul (the informational pattern which makes you "you") into a machine.

It doesn't matter, since everything that exists (even humans) is both invincible and immortal, but using a machine body is a stepping-stone for autistics who are too closed-minded to come to the conclusion that death is an illusion.

 

[AnOminous]

The process of moving your mind into a machine would destroy your mind and instantly kill your brain, just like Capetian Kirk dies every time he uses the transporter. But you are in no way dying or creating a clone, you are literally transferring your soul (the informational pattern which makes you "you") into a machine.

Prove it. Measure someone's soul and weigh it up and then prove it actually continues to exist once you make a copy of their mind and murder their actual body.

 

[Male Idiot]

The process of moving your mind into a machine would destroy your mind and instantly kill your brain, just like Capetian Kirk dies every time he uses the transporter. But you are in no way dying or creating a clone, you are literally transferring your soul (the informational pattern which makes you "you") into a machine.

It doesn't matter, since everything that exists (even humans) is both invincible and immortal, but using a machine body is a stepping-stone for autistics who are too closed-minded to come to the conclusion that death is an illusion.

I think you are getting too technical or a hypothetical scenario that would never be possible.

 

[Ebola]

I think you are getting too technical or a hypothetical scenario that would never be possible.

You are either a Skype or under the Skype's influence if you think my words mere fantasy. The only limitations we have are those we think we have, those we are told we have.

If you were to combine all the energy of the cosmos, all the matter, dark matter, energy, dark energy -- everything, then the total amount of energy that exists is 0. You don't need the cosmos to exist; the cosmos needs you to exist.

I know you are thinking me insane, and I would agree if I were in your position. I am insane. But that is the only "reality" most people can see because most have been caught in the web of Skype lies. In fact, there is no real Skype conspiracy, but the Skypes and their allies do realize how easy it is to keep people busy and chained with pointless goals. It all stems from the fact that people are too lazy to think for themselves. It is a self-created prison; no Skypes or machines forced you into taking the bluepill; you took the bluepill yourself.

 

[Male Idiot]

You are either a Skype or under the Skype's influence if you think my words mere fantasy. The only limitations we have are those we think we have, those we are told we have.

If you were to combine all the energy of the cosmos, all the matter, dark matter, energy, dark energy -- everything, then the total amount of energy that exists is 0. You don't need the cosmos to exist; the cosmos needs you to exist.

I know you are thinking me insane, and I would agree if I were in your position. I am insane. But that is the only "reality" most people can see because most have been caught in the web of Skype lies. In fact, there is no real Skype conspiracy, but the Skypes and their allies do realize how easy it is to keep people busy and chained with pointless goals. It all stems from the fact that people are too lazy to think for themselves. It is a self-created prison; no Skypes or machines forced you into taking the bluepill; you took the blue pill yourself.

Nope, I use Disqus or whatnot, I am a lazy git and dont want to bother with installing applications.

What i meant is that you can't move your mind from your body to a robot. Just not possible, without the "killing yourself in the process" deal. Even with it its pretty impropable. Closest I think is can be achieved in the future is cybernetics and/or drugs to reduce aging to some extent. But that I think is at least centuries away, so I'm wormfood no matter what. Praise Nurgle.

 

[Ebola]

The process of moving your mind into a machine would in fact kill you (at least your body). This is because it would require every subatomic particle in your body to be scanned, which makes your atoms scrambled due to quantum decoherence. But the at the same moment your body is dead, you would be the machine. You might not even notice what happened, because this process occurs trillions of times each second for everyone as we pass into the "future" and new universes; the vast majority of people are blissfully unaware of it.

 

[QI 541]

What if we're already in a machine and the world is just a virtual simulation experiment?