{"id":188372,"date":"2024-04-29T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/resurrection-through-simulation-questions-of-feasibility-desirability-and-some-implications"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:24:19","slug":"resurrection-through-simulation-questions-of-feasibility-desirability-and-some-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/resurrection-through-simulation-questions-of-feasibility-desirability-and-some-implications","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection through simulation: questions of feasibility, desirability and some implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/resurrection-through-simulation-questions-of-feasibility-desirability-and-some-implications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could a future superintelligence bring back the already dead? This discussion has come up a while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/lw\/3x3\/couldwould_an_fai_recreate_people_who_are\/\">back<\/a> (and see the somewhat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/r\/discussion\/lw\/bg0\/cryonics_without_freezers_resurrection\/\">related<\/a>); I\u2019d like to resurrect the topic because \u2026 it\u2019s potentially quite important.<\/p>\n<p>Algorithmic resurrection is a possibility if we accept the same computational patternist view of identity that suggests cryonics and uploading will work. I see this as the only consistent view of my observations, but if you don\u2019t buy this argument\/belief set then the rest may not be relevant.<\/p>\n<p>The general implementation idea is to run a forward simulation over some portion of earth\u2019s history, constrained to enforce compliance with all recovered historical evidence. The historical evidence would consist mainly of all the scanned brains and the future internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could a future superintelligence bring back the already dead? This discussion has come up a while back (and see the somewhat related); I\u2019d like to resurrect the topic because \u2026 it\u2019s potentially quite important. Algorithmic resurrection is a possibility if we accept the same computational patternist view of identity that suggests cryonics and uploading will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2017,41,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cryonics","category-information-science","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}