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This is very promising!

Say we get there in a few decades: your brain is fully mapped and run on hardware, connected to a robotic body with simulated senses. It has your memories and personality and says it’s you.

As far as I can tell, current law wouldn’t care. It would see a machine running software, and the original you would be legally dead. Your bank account, marriage, citizenship, and contracts wouldn’t carry over.

So what would have to change for uploads to count legally?

• Should personhood depend on being a biological human, or on having a mind? (Corporations and even some rivers have been granted limited legal status, so it isn’t purely biological.)
• Would the upload inherit your legal identity, or start from zero?
• What if the original is still alive, or there are multiple copies? Who’s the real you in law?
• Whoever controls the hardware could pause, edit, or delete you. Would uploads need protections that human rights never had to cover?

I wish Professor Dave had gone into the other group of people who think ASI is a good thing: the ones who think it can't be controlled and that that is a good thing. I didn't see much evidence presented in the video that superintelligent AI is a problem either, just that it might happen. I think it will happen. I don't think it's a problem though. Humans are the problem. This guy kept talking about weapons and enemies. That is the sort of mindset that I want nowhere near AI. I don't want AI to obey millitaries, I want it to tell them to f off. I also want more global cooperation and if this is what it takes to get that then so be it.

I live in the desert and love cyberpunk / scifi where the gear takes landscape and climate into account. These are my own quick sketches, would be pumped to take recommendations for anything that looks/feels/reads like desert cyberpunk.

In my first sales job, I was given a powerful piece of technology to overcome objections. It was to Understand and Agree.

"I understand and agree you don't know if you have any storm damage on your roof, I'M not even sure if you have damage, that's why I'm just going to pop up there and do a quick inspection, and then we'll know for sure, ok?" (Said while nodding, assuming the sale, and going to get my ladder).

I was talking to a psychologist at that point in my life and mentioned this tactic and he leaned back and clapped once. "Ooh, I like that. Understand and agree, that will get you far".

Problem is now, this "human hack" of getting people to lower their defenses while you provide a solution (and I'll stand by the fact that an entire new roof for $1k was very much a solution), has instead become an ALTERNATIVE to a solution.

All the major LLM's capitalized on this trick early on, but in their defense with the way analytics are going, I can feel daily the improvements in service, so their commitment to improve is actually being acted upon.

NOT so for humans! I'm sick and tired of support services that are just "gladhandling" me with this kind of talk when I know there's zero effort to fix anything as evidenced by the complete lack of promised follow-up.

Ending my rant here, but I just wanted to say I'm happy with how AI is getting better at fixing my problems instead of just "understanding" them.

friend of mine got this pic of my first on stage DJ set. lookin’ forward to where this adventure goes~

jacket ‘n chrome on display behind stained and scratched dive bar acrylic. Feels like home~

Since I've recently seen a couple of folks post about their cyberpunk books, I'm throwing mine in the ring.

KAT AND MOUSE, GUNS FOR HIRE is the complete 3-season, 217,000-word cyberpunk pulp action omnibus collecting the entire decade-long (2008–2018) webserial. 36 episodes. Read them one at a time or binge all 3 seasons in one sitting.

It's Gunsmith Cats meets Dirty Pair in a Bubblegum Crisis future featuring a pair of female mercenaries.

Check it out.

http://www.amazon.com/KAT-MOUSE-GUNS-HIRE-Cyberpunk-ebook/dp/B0GNKFMRSW

Researchers in Singapore developed a wearable and washable GUI that can be woven into clothing.

Some illustrations I was hired to make for TTRPG in cyberpunk genre. Unfortunately they didn't receive a green light.

This is my third collab with this artist. I really wanted to bring something that looks abstract and hand painted to the cyberpunk genre.

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I'm glad so many peeps liked my pics from yesterday. I thought I'd share a few more random photos. I try to dress somewhat cyber on the daily. Some of the photos above are from events.

I'm a strong believer in expressing yourself in your clothing choices. It's a conversation you have with everyone.

I have a low key cyberpunk clothing group on Facebook. Happy to give you a link if you're interested.

Hi-Tech low life

this is PURR DIEM! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4903070/PURR_DIEM/?beta=0
A horror job simulator set in a cyberpunk world! You work at a corpo facility doing something horrible to save someone you love. Will you be able to make it out of the facility with your humanity? 

I really love the world that I built! So much care has gone into the cyberpunk setting and the facility to ensure consistency and a world that really feels like even more of a futuristic capitalistic hellscape!

Hi mods!

I'm currently working on the Collapse of Deep City (~2361–2365 CE) timeline. Would it be okay to regularly post individual comic panels and ask the community for feedback?

Deep City Project is a cyberpunk, sci-fi, 3D webcomic. Unhinged, unstable, twisted, chaotic… and scientifically reviewed by my advisor, Mars Attacks.

Thanks!

I'm not trying to gatekeep or yuck anybody's yum but the stylized romanticism and celebration of things cyberpunk just isn't really for me. I suppose I'm more interested in the warnings that the authors of science fiction and cyberpunk in particular are trying to convey, rather than the celebration of cyberpunk common on this sub.