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2. It's post-singularity, and "compassion prostitution" is a thing; you can hook your brain up to someone else's to temporarily experience their memories, brain, personality, entirely and wholly, as if you are them. Would u hire a compassion prostitute to experience you?
  • absolutely not
    36.9%
  • maybe/unsure
    41.2%
  • absolutely yes
    21.9%
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3. It's post singularity, and you can easily make clones of yourself (with identical brains, carrying all your memories) by hacking the settings on your teleporter. As it's post-singularity, there's no issues with finding food/shelter for a new human. Do you do this?
  • absolutely not
    39.9%
  • maybe/unsure
    35.9%
  • absolutely yes
    24.2%
3,404 votesFinal results
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4. It's post singularity, and you can change your sexual orientation. A pill will radically shift your sexual orientation in the opposite direction for two months. Do you take it?
  • absolutely not
    44.2%
  • maybe/unclear
    33.6%
  • absolutely yes
    22.2%
3,478 votesFinal results
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5. it's post singularity, and you can experience anything you want to "safely" (as in, u can reboot back to previous states if encountering damage). Do you experiment with experiencing dying? e.g. getting murdered, eaten by a bear, skydiving into a volcano, etc.?
  • absolutely not
    34.7%
  • maybe/unclear
    31.4%
  • absolutely yes
    33.9%
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6. It's post singularity. You can take a pills that change your sexual preferences; do you take one that makes you extremely and exclusively sexually aroused by farm animals for 2 months? (assume actual intercourse with farm animals is done with hyper-realistic simulations)
  • absolutely not
    84.3%
  • maybe/unclear
    11.8%
  • absolutely yes
    3.9%
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7. It's post singulaity, and you can temporarily "download" snippets of people's experiences to experience viscerally, as though they were you, like you would download a movie. Would you download and experience what it's like to be an offending pedophile or mass shooter?
  • absolutely not
    53.7%
  • maybe/unclear
    28.2%
  • absolutely yes
    18.1%
3,231 votesFinal results
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8. It's post singulairty, and you can upload yourself to the hive mind if you want. After people join themselves to the collective consciousness, the collective reports that "It's super great man". you lose your individuality, but become vast and multifaceted. Would you join it?
  • absolutely not
    53.4%
  • mabye/unclear
    40.1%
  • absolutely yes
    6.5%
3,289 votesFinal results
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9. It's post singularity, and you have all types of self-modification at your disposal. If you take the pill, your own motivation and goals auto change to be what you consider to be "ideal" motivations right now (e.g., maybe being totally loving or selfless). Doyou take it?
  • absolutely not
    25.6%
  • maybe/unclear
    43.9%
  • absolutely yes
    30.5%
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10. It's post singularity, and enlightenment is now fully understood (and well-respected/regarded) as being induceable via specific brain states. You can take the enlightenment pill and just "get enlightened." Do you take the pill?
  • absolutely not
    14.5%
  • maybe/unclear
    39.6%
  • absolutely yes
    45.9%
2,899 votesFinal results
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i assume u think someone can, in theory, be enlightened? and this person can, in theory, be exactly cloned, and their clone would also be enlightened? which would imply enlightenment is in fact attributed to some sort of material structure
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I think it'd be about dynamics of one's working brain. It'd require not cloning, but a very precise snapshot, taken together with signals which are being transmitted by neurons in that moment. The result would not be another enlightened person but exactly the same person, copied.
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