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[INeedAName]

Hi! I'm new to this forum and thought I'd contribute to the ever growing number of weird topics by presenting one myself in the form of a discussion I had with my friend the other week.

The topic of this discussion was a question I just happened to ask previously mentioned friend while waiting for class. The question went something like this:

"If you could upload yourself to a giant computer, connecting yourself to all other human beings who also chose to, knowing more than 99% of humanity would, would you do it?"

I also clarified that you and everyone else who followed suit would still remain independant from each other, you would just live in a personal virtual world (where you're essentially god) with the option of meeting up with other people also connected.

The consequences of connecting is:

A: You would not be able to un-connect.
B: Since you have abandoned your physical self for a digital you, you are no longer limited by physical restrictions such as hunger, thirst, forgetfulness, bodily frailty, aging and death.
C: There is no termination programme.

If you were asked the question what would your answer be?

 

[Cracker3011]

I'd want to know what OS it was running on first. I am NOT putting my life in the hands of Windows Vista.

 

[s0p0g]

i'd like to, and consider it if i knew the servers run more stable than those ubisoft had for assassin's creed 2, and nothing and no-one governmental (common, non-virtual states) was involved

sounds fun ^^
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oh and only if i knew there was something like standby mode or some such i could put myself into. 24h consciousness isn't healthy, and i don't know what stupid attributes of my feeble human body remain

 

[Zantos]

Yeah. It'd be fun. Run the thing on DOS, that never breaks. Providing you only want to count as high as 37000.

 

[Dwachak]

I wouldn't want that. I like how nature is unpredictable. In a virtual world, nothing would ever come down to true chance. Though you could argue that chance is only exist because our minds are as limited as they are, and the connection would truly free us. But then again we are run more on glands than logic, maybe even completely on glands, so what would remain where we separated from our body?

Blaaargh this is a deep subject

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

I did have to think bout it...but hell yeah I would. All the disadvantages of living forever are outweighed by the fact that you're basically God.

When can I start?!

Also, welcome to El Escapisto:]!

 

[INeedAName]

Blaaargh this is a deep subject

Glad you liked it

About the stability of this computer... IDK I imagine it would be stable. Don't expect an Error message to pop up five minatues after you loggin and spend the rest of eternity staring at a blue-screen. Seriously though yeah it's stable.