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Blue or Green on Regulation?
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But think to yourself, in the silent privacy of your thoughts if you must: And yet they will still die, and they will not deserve it.

And then another silent afterthought: "Oh," you think, "Letting bad things happen, even when I have some stupid principle to justify it, is still bad!"

^ It was a different topic, but basically, that's how I became a consequentialist.

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Brain structure - scans reveal an amazingly regular pattern
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I'm curious about this study's implications with regards to whole brain emulation as well. Based on my extremely limited understanding of mind-uploading, my initial thought is that scanning and uploading a specific individual's brain would not necessarily rely on a previously known model of human anatomy. The brain could look like noodles in a bowl of spaghetti and the appropriate mind-uploading technology should be able to accurately simulate that. Different people's brains look different, so it seems like the technology would need to be extremely sensiti... (read more)

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5juliawise
My memory from Ken Hayworth's talk was that the problems were 1)plastinating brains in the first place without losing information, 2) being able to slice them thinly enough that all the information is scannable, again without the slicing destroying anything, 3) having enough cheap electron microscopes that it wouldn't take thousands of years to scan a single brain. It seems to me there's a fourth problem, doing something useful with the scanned information, but I don't remember much talk about that one. So not really helped by how connections are shaped, as far as I can understand.