Exactly. And I thought that was a fun idea but it's just that they haven't gotten closer to the core and hardest problem. They've gotten way better at other things but what's so wrong about that? What's so wrong about celebrating all the things we can do with the technology rather than wishing we go to Mars and ending death? I think there are other things to do. And I think even the notion of ending death is within, for me it's within the realm of scientific inquiry. What seems to me where I totally see no capacity for understanding is when I'm told about uploading consciousness. I just find that so absurd on its face because it's, you can't tell me that you even know what that is. You have no concept of it. And in fact you have no idea what an upload is within the concept of the fact that you don't know- I mean we could go real deep into this fact. I have no idea where I am. I'm living in a matrix of my own brain. This is not in dispute. So to look through a microscope and tell me (35/57)
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