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by kpil 98 days ago
I think "MMAcevedo" basically nails it: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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I don't think it's a best example. MMAcevedo is about running a real human mind on a different substrate (for science, for labor, or to torture it for fun a million times, I guess, by a bored teenager who got the image from torrents).

Scaling up these neuron cultures is rather something like "head cheese" from Greg Egan's "Rifters" novels (artificial "brains" trained to do network filtering, anti-malware combat etc.).

>Greg Egan's "Rifters"

By Peter Watts actually.

Yes, sorry! I like them both a lot.
Will put it in my list :-)
I had a genuine feeling of dread reading that, wow.
It takes some of the fun out of imagining eternal digital life, doesn't it :-)