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Yeah, I will say this VPN is pretty shitty.

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I don't think our electrical signals being hard to replicate is a given. There's lots of research going on to understand the behavior of individual neurons and how they connect via synapses.

The 'conventional approach' I've heard expressed most frequently is as follows:

1. death
2. quickly now...
3. inject brain with coloring dye and chemicals that prevent ice crystals from forming
4. freeze the brain
5. use a robotic setup with an ultra-fine blade and imager to chop up the brain one microscopic slice at a time, imaging as you go.
6. analyze all the slices to construct a digital 3D connectome, or map, of every neuron and every synaptic connection.
7. wire connectome into a simulator that provides a high fidelity emulation of a human body.
8. place the virtual body in a virtual reality simulation with earth, sky, trees houses etc...
9. switch everything on. Observe the new uploaded person. To see if they start asking about the success of the operation or if they start screaming and gibbering like a mad ape. (best to quietly turn off the simulation in the latter case)

Obviously, no taksies backsies using this approach.

BTW I wrote a scifi book on this topic a few years back.

I apologize for resurrecting this ancient thread, but what you're describing is exactly what I tried to do in my first scifi novel, which I just self-published.

Transhumanism: yes

AI and robotics: yes

Changes in geopolitical and societal structure: yes

Relatively possible hard science (mostly computer science): yes

Philosophical: yes

I studied computer science, linguistics, and philosophy at Stanford before working on DARPA-funded research in A.I. and then later in private enterprise. I've also presented papers at academic conferences on topics in A.I., Virtual Reality, and Ethics. Those are the general subjects of the book: In the Shadow of Humanity.

The book is brand new, and I'm trying to find interested readers who will write honest reviews, and who might be interested in becoming part of my "Advance Review Copy" (ARC) team for future books. If you're interested in getting a free copy of this first book and you're willing to consider writing an honest review, let me know. It's also free from Amazon at the link above if you have Kindle Unlimited.

Note: This is not the literary equivalent of a scifi action flick. My handle is u/scifirealism because my goal is to write serious science fiction blended with elements of realism. "Asimov meets Dostoevsky (but with only 5% of their talent)" is what I aspire to when writing. Personally, I think literary realism combines very nicely with hard scifi--but it's not for everyone.

We build a MODL (Massive Open Digital Laboritory) to study social networks. Here are some cool resource we put together for the computational community. https://coda.io/d/Computational-Renaissance_dYxkQutp0ap

Let me know what you think.

Boy that's a little dark. My experience is that people generally value each other and each other's company. Also, before they completely transend and become their own sovereign self sufficient entities, I think uploaded people will band together to share the work of maintaining a secure server stack and maintaining their freedom. They'll huddle together for technical and legal protection in a possibly hostile world. I love this idea of 'the first polises', surviving in a world that doesn't know how to deal with them. Here's my book on the topic. Also free from SmashWords: https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Free-Patrick-Arnesen-ebook/dp/B00B3DYFPO

I apologize for the shameless self-promotion. In my novel, K3+, the AI is non-sentient. I believe this is the difference between an omnipresent servant of humanity's post-scarcity civilization, and building our own replacement--going the way of the Neanderthal.

It's conceivable we are the first civilization on this part of the universe. this places a huge responsibility on our shoulders. A sentient AI will almost certainly drive our annihilation.

K3+ is on Amazon and iTunes.

Not only that, but Zuckerberg AND Yuval Harari both jacked the original research conducted by Martin Nowak in Super cooperators about cooperation as a selection process.

Just like he stole facebook and took credit for it.