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by r366y6 108 days ago
this is a related article https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-multi-beha...
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Ouch.

> Eon’s mission is to produce the world’s largest connectome and highest-fidelity brain emulation, targeting a complete digital emulation of a mouse brain and laying the groundwork for eventual human-scale emulation.

and:

> Eon is scaling its team and infrastructure to attempt the mouse and human brains next.

The "eventual human-scale emulation" and "human brains next" would have to be raising ethics concerns about digital slavery (and worse) for the emulated human.

That goal seems pretty far down the wrong track of "just because we could, without asking if we should". o_O

Yay, the most terrifying piece of short fiction I've ever read is coming true!

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Does this mean that the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero” is one step closer to becoming reality?