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Carinthium comments on How to become a PC? - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: DataPacRat 26 January 2014 06:49PM

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Comment author: Carinthium 27 January 2014 09:34:44AM 2 points [-]

Can somebody who actually knows this area give some probabilities on when immortality will actually be achieved? I genuinely am not qualified to do this, but surely somebody on this site may know enough to at least enlighten the rest of us somewhat on the matter.

Comment author: DataPacRat 27 January 2014 02:33:54PM 0 points [-]

Welp, the error bars are /extremely/ high, but if you want a figure to start working with, the table on page 16 of http://hanson.gmu.edu/longgrow.pdf implies that brain uploads might be achieved circa 2040... though I'm reasonably sure that's not /quite/ what the authour actually meant. :)