David Kipping

Yeah, or you can have a memory wipe when you go in.

I mean, it also kind of maybe speaks to this issue of like Neuralink and how do we keep up with AI in our world?

if you want to augment your intelligence, perhaps one way of competing, and one of your impetuses for going into this digital reality would be to be competitive intellectually with artificial intelligences that you could trivially augment your reality if your brain was itself artificial.

But I mean, one skepticism I've always had about that is whether, it's more of a philosophical question, but how much is that really you if you do a mind upload?

is this just a duplicate of your memories that thinks it's you versus truly a transference of your conscious stream into that reality?

It's almost like the teleportation device in Star Trek.

But with quantum teleportation, you can kind of rigorously show that

As long as all of the quantum numbers are exactly duplicated as you transfer over, it truly is from the universe's perspective in every way indistinguishable from what was there before.

It really is in principle you and all the sense of being you versus creating a duplicate clone and uploading memories to that human body or a computer that would

surely be a discontinuation of that conscious experience by virtue of the fact you've multiplied it.

I would be hesitant about uploading for that reason.

I would see it mostly as my own killing myself and having some AI duplicate of me that persists in this world, but is not truly my experience.

I certainly think in terms of a career in science, one thing that I maybe discovered late but has been

incredibly influential on me in terms of my own happiness and my own productivity has been this synergy of doing two passions at once, one passion in science communication and another passion in research, and not surrendering either one.

And I think...

That tends to be seen as something that's an either or.

You have to completely dedicate yourself to one thing to gain mastery in it.

That's a conventional way of thinking about both science and other disciplines.

And I have found that both have been elevated by practicing in each.

And I think that's true in all assets of life.