Minimizing suffering & ASI xrisk through brain digitization

By Amy Louise Johnson @ 2025-02-20T21:08 (+1)

From a certain perspective, the human body is shitty hardware that runs even shittier code: We often feel anxious & depressed to the point of dysfunction. We can be irrational. Our DNA mutates, practically every time we blink. We can only survive in extremely particular environments. We reproduce and evolve exceedingly slowly. We fall apart. We suffer. We die.

If we digitize human consciousness, a person could choose their levels of happiness, rationality, and health. Such a person could exist on hardware in biologically-inhospitable environments, participate in faster evolution, maintain digital backups, suffer less, live as long as they choose, and get energy more efficiently--rather than having to rely on the inefficient sun>plants>animals chain, replete with all the shit.

Furthermore, it seems this would eliminate P (DOOM from ASI), since we would become ASI.

For now, we can improve ourselves the slow and hard way. However, a person might also want to consider arranging to have their brain chemically preserved, such as by Oregon Brain Preservation, after their "natural" death occurs. This might allow for eventual digitization followed by "waking up" in a virtual environment.

Neural preservation and digitization research is currently being done by Andy McKenzie at Apex Neuroscience, with philanthropic support from Jordan Sparks; @KennethHayworth at the Brain Preservation Foundation; and others.

As humans, let's finally move past the shit!

Sorry for shitposting.

Everyone, please consider joining others who are already supporting these efforts, as human survival might depend on it.