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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14869314

"I want to live forever in AI"

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

void teleport(Person person);

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 7 months ago

It needs an empty catch block

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

I had to turn my phone sideways and go cross-eyed to spot the difference.

[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The best part is, unless that function name is misleading, it doesn't matter how the data is passed; a copy is being sent out over TCP/IP to another device regardless.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago
[-] The_Terrible_Humbaba@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago

It wouldn't be you, it would just be another person with the same memories that you had up until the point the copy was made.

When you transfer a file, for example, all you are really doing is sending a message telling the other machine what bits the file is made up of, and then that other machines creates a file that is just like the original - a copy, while the original still remains in the first machine. Nothing is even actually transferred.

If we apply this logic to consciousness, then to "transfer" your brain to a machine you will have to make a copy, which exist simultaneously with the original you. At that point in time, there will be two different instances of "you"; and in fact, from that point forward, the two instances will begin to create different memories and experience different things, thereby becoming two different identities.

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[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

The first line passes the argument by reference, ie, the object itself.

The second line passes the object by value, ie, a copy.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Also in Rust that would be the opposite which is funny but confusing

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[-] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

[-] neo@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

Are you sure the roon of today is a reference to yesterday's roon?

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