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outtyn1nja t1_j10nhfg wrote

If 'people' are going to travel to other worlds, we would be digitized, stored, and activated in a cyber-body at the final destination.

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FogoCanard t1_j10tp46 wrote

any books/movies on this? I feel like this is man's final form. A lot of us have the idea. It's just a matter of execution(might take another couple hundred years). What happens if we get in disputes though? Someone can delete another person's data and they would cease from existence?

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GrabMyCactus t1_j10vchh wrote

That's kind of what happens when someone is murdered. :)

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ElderWandOwner t1_j10vy3o wrote

Altered carbon on netflix is somewhat based on this idea. I don't think they use it much for space travel though.

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LegendaryRed t1_j114o1o wrote

Exception on Netflix "In a distant future where humans are forced to leave Earth, a spacecraft carrying a 3D-printed crew of specialists is sent to terraform a new planet."

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wild_b_cat t1_j11en9k wrote

Great books on this:

Accelerando by Charles Stross Ken MacLeod’s Corporation Wars.

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user_name_unknown t1_j10upn0 wrote

The crew could still control the ship from inside a simulation. In Ian M Banks “The Hydrogen Sonata” the Gzilt warships have a crew that upload their minds into the ship and the simulation is speed up compared to real time. It allows them to operate extremely fast.

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outtyn1nja t1_j10wlbv wrote

I'd imagine a rudimentary general AI could do that job much better than any human, if we're talking about future tech here.

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user_name_unknown t1_j10x92f wrote

I’m the book it allowed them to work at the same speeds as the god like AI Minds. In the book there was a part describing them working like a normal ship, they had fire Control, communication, but they were operating faster than the speed of light.

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mjbat7 t1_j10v0sw wrote

Seems inefficient. Surely easier to transmit instructions for constructing the body and programming it to an existing intelligence. Which is like a mix between the plot of Contact and Species.

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outtyn1nja t1_j10wfv4 wrote

You might be right; why carry something you can just craft on site?

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dreamlike_poo t1_j10vpu2 wrote

Altered Carbon deals with this idea too, it also deals with what the world would be like if you could constantly download your brain into a new designer body forever (if you can afford it) and how the ultra rich become stratospherically rich.

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