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Gareth
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My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
“Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
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| 07-04-2012 06:43 AM |
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
“Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
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| 07-04-2012 06:48 AM |
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Gareth
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
For those not sure what this is - a worm's brain got scanned, now it lives in the computer.
“Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
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| 07-04-2012 06:51 AM |
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
For those not sure what this is - a worm's brain got scanned, now it lives in the computer.
How long before a human's brain can be scanned and then live in a computer?
I saw a date of 2030
Much better than freezing - IMO.
‘Just off the coast of Autonomy, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lies the fog shrouded Isle of Best Interests’.
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| 07-04-2012 11:25 AM |
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
For those not sure what this is - a worm's brain got scanned, now it lives in the computer.
How long before a human's brain can be scanned and then live in a computer?
I saw a date of 2030
Much better than freezing - IMO.
Except for 2 things:
1 - The duplicates problem (it's not a transfer of consciousness, it's a copy - a copy of you will live on but you won't)
2 - With current technology it is possible to scan brain tissue at a high-enough resolution to make my wormy friend possible but the process is destructive to the original
“Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
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| 07-04-2012 11:50 AM |
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
For those not sure what this is - a worm's brain got scanned, now it lives in the computer.
How long before a human's brain can be scanned and then live in a computer?
I saw a date of 2030
Much better than freezing - IMO.
Except for 2 things:
1 - The duplicates problem (it's not a transfer of consciousness, it's a copy - a copy of you will live on but you won't)
2 - With current technology it is possible to scan brain tissue at a high-enough resolution to make my wormy friend possible but the process is destructive to the original
Ahhh... you killed the worm.
I suppose it was in a good cause... one step closer to brain uploading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_transfer
Rats next? I can think of a few.
‘Just off the coast of Autonomy, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lies the fog shrouded Isle of Best Interests’.
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| 07-04-2012 02:08 PM |
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Phillip J Fry
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
I wonder what horror's that wormy is going through living in the computer ?
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| 07-04-2012 02:24 PM |
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Gareth
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
I wonder what horror's that wormy is going through living in the computer ?
It's too simple to have emotional states
“Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
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| 07-04-2012 04:44 PM |
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Phillip J Fry
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
I wonder, is the worm living in some matrix-like virtual world ?
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| 07-04-2012 08:47 PM |
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d_olson27
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
Hmm... A mind living inside a computer with no capacity for emotion or compassion. Does this sound to anyone else like the beginning of a sci-fi horror movie?
Friends will let you be who you are. Best friends will never let you forget it. I'm just trying to be everyone's best friend.
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| 07-04-2012 08:52 PM |
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
I wonder, is the worm living in some matrix-like virtual world ?
You can see on the youtube video what its world looks like - a simplistic little 3D environment vaguely similar to a petri dish.
As for the lack of emotion and compassion, well so far lack of compassionate biological worms hasn't harmed the human race too badly.
“Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
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| 07-04-2012 08:56 PM |
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Phillip J Fry
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
A Sci-Fi horror movie directed by James Cameron called The Terminator?
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| 07-04-2012 08:56 PM |
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Phillip J Fry
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Worms are our FRIENDS 
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| 07-04-2012 08:57 PM |
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d_olson27
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
As for the lack of emotion and compassion, well so far lack of compassionate biological worms hasn't harmed the human race too badly.
Yeah, I'm not too worried about it. The joke was just too tempting to pass up.
Friends will let you be who you are. Best friends will never let you forget it. I'm just trying to be everyone's best friend.
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| 07-04-2012 08:59 PM |
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RE: My computer has worms.... ok just one of them
It does look a bit lonely.
Can you put another one in there? 
‘Just off the coast of Autonomy, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lies the fog shrouded Isle of Best Interests’.
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| 07-04-2012 09:12 PM |
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