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Ok original founder, nicely told story. Have you seen the series "Altered carbon" on netflix? The body swtiches, but the consiousness is uploaded to disks that are transfered from one body to the next. With this problem domain in mind, why try to preserve consiousness in something as fragile as human tissue? Why not try to do it the altered carbon way? If Sam Altman thinks will have AGI within thousends of days (his latest long form piece of writing), that route to perservering conciousness seems a lot more attainable than this route 🤔

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Yes, I have watched the series. There's also a number of good scifi books about the theme. To your point, we know very little of what consciousness is in physics terms (still one of the big mysteries) so we can't really port it to silicon, where as what Cradle is doing is tractable scientifically and technically: they have a line of sight on how to solve the problem they are focused on. Consciousness that lives on silicon is still firmly in the scifi camp.

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Thank you for the thoughtful reaction. Douglas Hofstadter gave conciousness a pretty good shot in Gödel, Escher, Bach, as well as I Am a Strange Loop. As for your explanation, I’ll buy the argument, I thought the narrative lacked the ”why no other way” but I guess that doesn’t matter if you have your ”line of sight” with one trajectory.

Albiet, how hard the step-by-step problems aludes those less familiar with the subject.

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Yep. That's the main point I'd tried to get across. You can't finance open ended exploration, but you can finance a detailed plan when you structure it correctly and pin down how you tackle each piece even if ambitious and risky. This naturally means you need to know enough about the problem to be able to write up a credible plan.

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