Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar 383
trendspotter writes in with the latest news about the 2045 Project. "If Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov has his way, the human lifespan will soon no longer depend on the limitations of the human body. Itskov, a Russian tycoon and former media mogul, is the founder of the 2045 Project — a venture that seeks to replace flesh-and-blood bodies with robotic avatars, each one uploaded with the contents of a human brain. The goal: to extend human lives by hundreds or thousands of years, if not indefinitely."
Re:Ok, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Unless you can transfer your consciousness you're still going to be dead.
Spending your waning years of weakness, decay, and degradation, plagued by the constant cruel mockery of your ageless immortal doppelganger is just a fun extra feature!
Re:I agree with Lewis Black (Score:5, Funny)
Death is not a bug, it's a feature. It's the only way we get rid of old assholes.
Hypothetically, if we were implementing immortality-by-simulation, couldn't we resort to Instance dungeons [wikipedia.org]? No reason why all the avatars have to coexist in one self-consistent reality, when we could instead fork the annoying ones off into an eternal 'The Good Old Days' where they can live out their crabbed fantasies in fuzzy black and white forever...
(Of course, if somebody's reality is dependent on simulation, and the requirement of self-consistency across all the simulants is dropped, you could could also theoretically cut the priority of everyone within a given instance, and run the in-sim passage of time at less than real time. As long as they don't have access to external timebases, they shouldn't even be able to tell.
Re:Copies are not you! (Score:5, Funny)
More than this, if you copy yourself to a different vessel, your memories get copied. This will include the movies and television you have seen and the music you have listened to.
Copying of movies, television and music in any format is big bad evil according to the wonderful US legislators who take lots of money from record companies and movie studios - so backing yourself up is a copyright violation.
This will be important to remember when the uber wealthy (probably the executives of the same record companies and movie studios) back themselves up. Because then we charge them with illegal copyright violations and get them to vacate their new bodies. Of course by then they will give each other free distribution rights and use it as a hammer to stop the "irrelevant plebs" from ever being able to save themselves.
Re:Android avatar, really? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
That's pretty derp for Slashdot.
FTFY.
Re:I agree with Lewis Black (Score:3, Funny)
You're next granddad.
Re:Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)