That will never happen, sorry. At most thanks to brain imaging you can create a digital avatar similar to yourself in many aspects, but that avatar will not be a direct extension or substitute for your biological body. And as an aside humanity as a whole will also become redundant and driven to extinction very soon.

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Not for a very long time. You need to set more realistic goals.

No one knows. Maybe next 20 to 30 years.

Option 2 would work.

We already keep people alive in coma, automated machines would do the job of keeping the body alive way more efficiently.

The human body just needs shelter, heat, nutrition, water, medication and waste disposal.

I have little use for this body anyway, if machines can care about the upkeep, I am good.

Maybe we can maximize the utility of a biological body and link it to the digital world.

If machines can be built and instructed to keep the body alive in a coma like condition, combined with advances in genetics and medicine, human bodies could be kept alive for centuries.

I would have little use for my body anyway and rather interact with the material world through data input from machines.

I used to think this until I thought about, instead of an instant transfer, gradual integration with electronics. First an implant that connects your brain to a computer interface. Then one that gives you extra neural capacity.

Your thoughts and memories move back and forth between biological and digital substrate. Over time you get more and more digital capacity and less biological until one day you are all computer. There would be no point where you go from one to the other. It is the ship of Theseus.

I think it is more likely that we actually fix (most of) the problems in the real world first, before we get to that level of tech. The huge increase in GDP and resources we are going to get from even near-future AI is going to mean a lot less competition is necessary.

People are still dying from aging and disease.

Don't bother thinking about immortality just yet.

Doesn't look like it. Warren Buffet says that the top 400 people in the US had 92 billion $ in assets combined in 1982. As of 2022 it is 2.1 trillion $. The trend is accelerating.

The rich are destroying the poor and that is just how this world seems to work and operate in general. It is hell. The only solution is to not participate in the material world.

If people could find a way to leave the material world behind at large and still exist and experience in a digital world, they can create their world however they see fit.

Anything is possible imo. But who knows. I'm thinking it probably be a while. I know I'm ready for it, though.

I totally agree. And That’s the goal right? I mean, I think that’s the fantasy that we want on this Sub. And I think that’s what we as a society should try to work toward and to attain. We need to create artificial intelligence that can quickly and correctly determine how our brains work and how to wire them up to the internet (or whatever a pre-singularity internet equivalent is) while also making technology powerful enough to create these digital paradises. Then we merge. And then the singularity happens.

My question is: will be be able to do all of this by 2045? I certainly hope so.

Lol the world is not hell. Literally every metric of well-being has increased steadily around the world in the last century. Get some perspective.

At least in the developed world standards of living are declining, especially in the US it seems.

That being said, living condiditions in the developing world have dramaticly improved over the last 50 years, from a low bar.

Median wages in the US are down because of COVID, but prior to that they were at an all time high. Home ownership fluctuates, but was near all time high as well. Even now, it is only down 3 percent from all time high. Percent of people graduating high school and college is at an all time high.

Pick any statistic and people are doing better than they were 50 years ago. You are just very, very young and so you think if your life sucks it must be someone else’s fault. You also have no idea what it really means for your life to suck. Don’t worry, you will figure it out eventually.

Do we have a shot this century? That's the only thing I'm curious about.