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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 3

    A sucker dies every minute: A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal” - via @techreviewhttps://www.technologyreview.com/s/610456/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/?utm_campaign=add_this&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post …

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      2. Karl Frank Jr.‏ @karlfrankjr Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        If they uploaded your mind and then downloaded it to 4 different hosts...which one would be you?

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      3. Tony Holder‏ @TonyHolder Apr 3
        Replying to @karlfrankjr @sapinker @techreview

        Could take identity theft to a whole new dimension!

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Lord Flashheart‏ @LordFlash_ Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        A free Darwin Award with every purchase

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      1. Heisenberg‏ @atheist_in_nc Apr 5
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        Customer satisfaction is 100%, they've never been sued!

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      1. Dr Gavin Weeks‏ @WeeksGav Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        Genuinely thought this was an April fool!

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      1. Mike Sherrard‏ @AncasterMike Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        Who said natural selection no longer works to improve our species?

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      1. Urbanski ❌‏ @KasimirUrbanski Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        You know, it may be that some point in the distant future people will figure out how to replicate or even preserve Consciousness. To them, this sort of stuff will look like what Egyptian mummification practices look like to us.

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      2. Scott Marshall‏ @ScottAMarshall Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        Their numbers are off. Millions of brain cells? More like 100 billion neurons and one trillion synapses. It's technically not fatal if the expectation is to be revived later in a new body or simulation

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      3. Marc Moseley‏ @MarcWMoseley Apr 4
        Replying to @ScottAMarshall @sapinker @techreview

        I was surprised too, to see MIT got that wrong. And then add in, what, just as many glial cells?

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Joshua Kessler‏ @JoshuaKessler1 Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        Do they just take your brain out?

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      3. Gustavo Loureiro, MD‏ @gus_loureiro Apr 3
        Replying to @JoshuaKessler1 @sapinker @techreview

        Yes.

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      1. Evan Wilson‏ @EvaniswilsoN Apr 4
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        I like those odds

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      1. tony ridler‏ @tony_ridler Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        If it weren't for the rocks, in our head, nothing could be written, in stone-;#GumpRules

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      1. Peter Hodges‏ @punter05 Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        This is akin to selling plots of land on the moon or mars and is equally stupid.

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      1. Mark Martens‏ @MarkMartens42 Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker @techreview

        Yes, but 'satisfaction or your money back'.

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