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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
(www.westernsydney.edu.au)
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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I have huge ethical concerns, but even more so I wanna know how they think they can start up a brain minus the development process.
I welcome the path towards singularity.
I reject it entirely. People can't get over what shape their genitals are. There's no goddamn way we can trust anyone to be in charge of an entire emulated being, even with a large staff of people fretting over every detail with checks and balances in place.
If I say I wanna die(and I do) I get an army of people telling me how stupid and wrong I am. "It gets better." No it doesn't. You wanna know why they reject my desire to die? It's because what they want from me matters more than ethics to them. I'm not granted personal agency as an actual living being. How can we trust anyone when it's "just a machine" and there's power dynamics at hand? Political image leads people to keep downs syndrome people who self harm alive while they pretend for the camera that they're providing a healthy fulfilling life for them.
Nobody is ready for this.
Being able to chose your form and synthetically modify your body doesnt really change your ability to choose to keep living or not
What part of that has literally anything to do with what I said?