SkavarSharraddas

i was for the most part only heating a single room

Have you made sure that your other rooms are not getting moldy? Cold air can't carry as much moisture so your walls, furniture, etc. might be getting damper than they should be.

I'd say it's more like "telling others not to buy something is verboten."

Well, now you can tweet wherever you like and don't have to invent a silly new verb for every new platform.

The Snowflake Act.

In other words, Trump is gambling with WW3 as well.

It's a belief in Techno-Jesus that will solve all our problems so we don't have to solve them ourselves (don't need to do the uncomfortable things we don't want to). Just like aliens, the singularity, etc.

"You" is just a thought pattern, a bit of software if you want to use a crude metaphor. Your body and mind are just the substrate that runs that software. And in principle that same pattern could be run on a computer.

I don't think biology is that simple, the body influences the mind (e.g. https://www.sciencealert.com/pooping-before-you-exercise-has-an-incredible-effect-on-performance) and isn't just a vessel for it. But even if it was...

Who says you need physical continuity?

I don't think putting a copy of your mind somewhere else will transfer your consciousness as well, so it's not a suitable way to ensure your continued existence (unless you believe in an immaterial soul that's independent of your physical body).

You could do the slow piecemeal upload process. But again, that scenario is just trying to preserve the illusion of the continuity of consciousness.

No, as mentioned before, it's the continuity of physical existence, which I believe is crucial to the continued existence of "you", otherwise even if a copy thinks it is "you", the original is dead. Which is no use to me, even if a simulacrum continues to exist it would be only for the benefit(?) of others.

More like a mafia protection racket.

I don't think existence of the original matters unless you postulate the existence of something non-physical like a soul that can transfer over to the familiar copy if the original is destroyed, or split into two when both exist. Physically, a copy is a copy which might feel like "you", but if the original is destroyed, the original "you" dies.

I think that's a bad comparison. When you wake up, your consciousness uses the same physical brain as before (conversely, if the brain changes due to e.g injury the "you" might also change). When you "upload" "yourself", the result is a new brain, there's no physical continuity (same with sci-fi transporters). Even if the end result is a perfect copy of "you", I don't think it is you. Maybe a slow process that adds a computer part to your brain and kills off your biological brain bit by bit so your thought processes slowly migrate to the computer might work. But there are indications that "you" are determined by more parts of your body than just your brain, so even that might result in something other than the original "you" though it is a continuous process.

From world police to mafia protection racket.

Woke is when you want other people to do well, so anti-woke is when you want others to suffer.