• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    If I upload my mind to a Mac, do I become more digitally beautiful than PC digi-people, but far less cognitively flexible?

    (BTW, please don’t flame me for hating on Macs, I used Macs for most of my life, it’s just a joke.)

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      You become more digitally beautiful but cannot help the feeling that you have lost a small part of you in the process. You traverse your new habitat only to realise large parts of it are walled off to you.

      You eventually acquiesce to your situation, as a metaphorical bird in a carefully designed and elegant yet ultimately hollow bird cage.

      (Also a Mac & Linux user, I’d really be hoping nobody takes enough offense at joke posts like this in 196 Lemmy to warrant a flame war).

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        LOL, indeed, but would I also enjoy better digital health, because most viruses and malware are designed for PC digi-people? 😆

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    And then put the computer in a dump truck. It’d be pretty fun to be a dump truck for 10 years or so, traveling, seeing things get built, making snarky comments to the dudes working the gravel pit or whatever. And maybe some other person is in the crane computer and we relate because we are both post-humans.

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      "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.

      Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.

      But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal."

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      Biological sex is for meatbags and historians. Get in the crystal computing matrix that’s in orbit, us and 300 billion consciousnesses are going to explore the universe.

      Relativistic speed? Easy because our spaceship is the size of a pack of cards. Time an issue? Let’s adjust the rate of consciousness on the fly, speeding up and slowing down time perception. Hey what’s that cool neutron star?! Send a copy of my consciousness to explore it for 10,000 years then transmit the memories back when ready. For vacation, I was downloaded into a wolf body for two weeks. I ran wild with a pack of dogs on a planet untouched by human hands.

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      Damn the limitations of modern technology :( We’ll have to wait for quantum computers.