Digital feels more real every day

How likely is brain preservation to work? open.substack.com/pub/neurobiolo…

Fun Facts: NIH budget for research on diseases causing > 90% of human deaths is reduced by 40% Homicide deaths (whether by illegal alien or not) < 0.01% but ICE funding is increased by 300% Total ICE budget > 6 times yearly NIH budget Homicide deaths < 0.01 disease deaths

Digital humans will have infinite worlds to play in, as wide as no man's sky with infinite levels of detail

Simulated realities can be really nice places to live, but the substrate and your admin do matter if you don't want your reality to end arbitrarily. Also it can affect the stability of physical laws

Looking forward! 🚀🪐🧠

Neurons: the super-networkers of the cellular world

lighting fires in greenhouses for winter growing. The extra CO2 should help also

A lo-fi emulation stitched together from training data of real humans. She exists, but her moral weight might be closer to a mouse than a person.

the term "uploading" in neuroscience is still as taboo as "AGI" was in 2012--shunned by academia and yet closer than anyone thought. Thank you Foresight Institute for bringing so many cool people together to discuss the real technical challenges to this endeavor, this was fun!

horse realizes he's in a simulation

billboard in SF: "Welcome to AI country. Population: everyone."