Sparks Brain Preservation

https://i.postimg.cc/cCzNrPJJ/froggy.png If I had to guess, the closest field would be robot chips rather than AI chips. It's possible to buy cheap 250 micrometer diameter fiber optic cables, compared to the brain's axons which are 0.1 micrometers to 10 micrometers. Because light is one million tim...

Update on my neuromorphic computer. I started working on spherical fiber optic cable routing algorithms. The reason to use light is that it is faster than electricity (about twice as fast or so) and also that it doesn't create much heat like copper lattice. My idea is that its not necessary to think...

The reason why I believe neuromorphic computers will be necessary is that GPUs are already reaching atomic limits: it's mentioned in the review.

Here's a better render of my in-progress design showing the dual-sided ring to sphere concept

Since I first posted this, I've been sidequesting solving the neuromorphic computer bottleneck. I read this overview paper . Below, you can see an example of the structure I designed for my first project, which I am calling Frog Emissary , it's based on Grimm's The Frog Prince fairy tale. The idea h...

I wanted to follow up to bring up that Japan's Brain/MINDS project is focused on mapping genetically modified Marmosets, which is a phenominally cool approach to choose.
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii ... %2930719-X

The current estimates for costs to upload people to computers are very grim. The jist is that neuromophic computing is in its research infancy and Jensen Huang and Lisa Su are not going to save anyone but their shareholders from 2003 with GPUs. Although GPUs may be capable of creating forms of gener...

<r>Currently 99.9% of people in Japan who die get cremated.<br/> This is very sad because there are a lot of great robotics and game developers as well as some manga illustrators, scientists, electric motor manufacturers, and cosplayer women in Japan I want to save from information theoretic death.<...

jordansparks wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2026 9:14 pm many of the rules would be collapsed into simpler parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381

My first thought is that a rule based molecular tagging parameter system sounds similar to entity component systems like flecs . Although, there are many problems that would occur getting graph compression and spatial partition algorithms to support system throughput, as well as running neural syste...

I guess this post is mostly a high concept piece about the compounding and inflation on the way up meeting the cost reduction on the way down and guessing where they meet.
Indentured servitude based revival would really suck!

With regard to one of the intermediate 3rd parties, I can't imagine a better representitive than an AI model directly prompted by the original person on how to judge decisions on their behalf.

I've been thinking about how much to charge for revival to make it accessible to everyone and I think a good starting point is one billion dollars . Your first impression might be, woah! That's so much money! Only the uber wealthy people like Elon Musk can pay for it. That's not fair: what about all...

I think a strong case for body preservation is not necessarily biological restoration of the body itself, but to use the preserved body as data for construction of a humanoid robot with the same physical structure, for nostalgia and continuity. Same skeleton, but setup for spacefaring. What do you t...

maybe I would urge a rephrase
at least preserving everyone who dies (who wants to be preserved, quickly)

I don't believe that it's desirable to try to save everyone.
In my opnion, rationalist proselytizing....
being an advanced techology utopia missionary....
is ultimately less effective and welcomed by others than just working on creating better computers and robots.

It's true that data loss is part of life if you're not a Borg (backup software) cyborg, especially if you get hit by the big one (I hope the brain vats have some padding to ride out a 10 without getting nasty concussions!). I was initially drawn to chemical biostasis, to Sparks, over cryonics based ...

It's Hugging- Face :lol: This is a really dark scenario! Eating bugs in a sealed facility stands in quite a contrast to your visual novel upload happy ending for everyone. Since 'the game' does lean towards survival-horror and entrepreneur-strategy genre for the majority of players: it's definitely ...

Call it what you will, an artificial afterlife, post-life memory care, a Google-L11-God complex, or about time there was an honest-to-AGI seastead. There seems to not be any organizations, to use a term I learned from John L. Pollock, 'backward chaining' from the post-upload objective state towards ...

Algernon is truly getting the C-Suite experience.

Have you considered running some sort of Kaggle competition on computer vision for turning a tensor of brain voxels into a graph data structure? Is the primary bottleneck now mainly robotic manipulators for slicing and dicing and synapse-voy... flood filling networks, or computational reconstruction...

jordansparks wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2026 10:00 pm Investments in space technology would boom because WBEs could live in space more easily without all the health problems that humans have to deal with. Because living in space would be possible, WBEs could also thrive there economically by mining,

Better get a head start on this so to speak!

living expenses could go down after uploading The main concern I would have is that future companies (or existing companies in the future) that make the computer hardware, and all the dependencies they have in the world, become a dependency of WBEs. Whereas before it was plausible to survive withou...

uploads based on some sort of helmet are just technobabble
feels like a callout of Pantheon's Chandra upload scene