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"According to MIT Technology Review, the president of Y Combinator Sam Altman is one of 25 people who have put down a $10,000 refundable deposit to join a waiting list at Nectome — a company whose sole purpose is "the goal of archiving your mind." There's just one, rather huge catch: They have to kill you first. Like, literally kill you.
But why wait? Just die now. And take all your rich friends with you.
https://mashable.com/2018/03/13/sam-altman-nectome-brain-upload-y-combinator
@cercerilla because signing a paper that says "I donate my dead body to science" is free and there is absolutely zero need for this Silicon Valley dudebro bullshit
@cercerilla @Antanicus I think it's also possible to do whole body plastination. It would be great to turn the rich into lifesize plastic models and then use them as crash test dummies, first aid training dolls, firing range targets, sex robots or dressers mannequins. At least then they would have a useful afterlife.
@Antanicus I don’t understand why people think this is so ridiculous. I certainly wouldn’t want to die right now, but if faced with say some fatal condition and only a few months left to live in agony, why not risk losing a little for the potential of some semblance of yourself being preserved. Even if they can’t actually simulate you, there would be neuroscience to learn from many scanned brains.