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@onusozImagine the following scenario: 1. We develop brain-scan technology today which can take a perfect snapshot of anyone’s brain, down to the atomic level. You undergo this procedure after you die and your brain scan is kept in some fault-tolerant storage, along the lines of GitHub Arctic Code Vault. 2. But sufficiently cheap real-time brain emulation technology takes considerably longer to develop—say 1000 years in the future. 3. 1000 years pass. Everyone that ever knew, loved or cared about you die. Here is the crucial question: Given that running a brain scan still costs money in 1000 years, why should anyone bring *you* back from the dead? Why should anyone boot *you* up? Compute doesn’t grow in trees. It might become very efficient ... (read more in my blog: https://t.co/WCUmzVM4Nu) --- I intended this thought piece as entertainment, almost went to Hacker News frontpage: https://t.co/PnH61jryVa It must have hit some psychological spot, since people wrote a lot of comments, possibly more than number of upvotes.