Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever

Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:20 pm » by **Edgar 2.0**

Just look at this shit : :vomit:

The Pentagon’s new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who’d act as “surrogates” for their human overlords in battle.

But according to Dmitry Itskov, a 31-year-old Russian media mogul, the U.S. military’s Avatar initiative doesn’t go nearly far enough. He’s got a massive, sci-fi-esque venture of his own that he hopes will put the Pentagon’s project to shame. Itskov’s plan: Construct robots that’ll (within 10 years, he hopes) actually store a human’s mind and keep that consciousness working. Forever.

“This project is leading down the road to immortality,” Itskov, who founded New Media Stars, a Russian company that runs several online news outlets, tells Danger Room. “A person with a perfect Avatar will be able to remain part of society. People don’t want to die.”

Itskov’s project, also called “Avatar,” actually precedes the Pentagon’s. He launched the initiative a year ago, but recently divulged more details to a group of futurists — including Ray Kurzweil — at a three-day conference, called Global Future 2045, held in Moscow.

Until now, most of the work on Itskov’s Avatar has taken place in Russia, where he claims to have hired 30 researchers — all of them paid out of his own deep pockets. Now, Itskov plans to take the mission global. “I want to collaborate with scientists from around the world,” he says. “This is a new strategy for the future; for humanity.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/dmitry-itskov/

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( i especially like the youtube comment : "but how will i masturbate with that body?" :mrgreen:

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More info here :

http://2045.com/

Of course, all that shit is reserved for the billionaires only :

Honorable Members of Forbes World’s Billionaires List,

In 2012 alone, 16 new members brought your number to 1,226 people, and your total fortune from 100 billion to $ 4.6 trillion. You have worked hard to achieve amazing results, and often even compromising your health, your longevity. And unfortunately, modern medicine is still the medicine of a hundred percent mortality – the best it can do is to temporarily delay the process of human aging.

But it no longer has to be this way.

Many of you who have accumulated great wealth by making success of your businesses are supporting science, the arts and charities. I urge you to take note of the vital importance of funding scientific development in the field of cybernetic immortality and the artificial body. Such research has the potential to free you, as well as the majority of all people on our planet, from disease, old age and even death.

Contributing to cutting-edge innovations in the fields of neuroscience, nanotechnology and android robotics is more than building a brighter future for human civilization, but also a wise and profitable business strategy that will create a new and vibrant industry of immortality - limitless in its importance and scale. This kind of investment will change every aspect of business as we know it: the pharmaceutical industries, transportation, medicine, energy generation, construction techniques, to cite a few.

Currently you invest in business projects that will bring you yet another billion. You also have the ability to finance the extension of your own life up to immortality. Our civilization has come very close to the creation of such technologies: it's not a science fiction fantasy. It is in your power to make sure that this goal will be achieved in your lifetime.

For anyone interested, but skeptical, I am ready to prove the viability of the concept of cybernetic immortality by arranging an expert discussion with a team of the world's leading scientist working in this field.

I will also be willing to coordinate your personal immortality project entirely free of charge for the sake of speeding up the development of these technologies.

Honorable businessmen and businesswomen, members of the Forbes richest list: human life is unique and priceless. It is only when we have to part with life do we realize just how much we have not done, that we have not had enough time to do what we really wanted or to address something we’ve done wrong. Everything that we have cherished and loved all of a sudden becomes unreachable.

Today you have a unique chance to change this situation. And at the same time bring invaluable benefits to your countries and the world as well as make a mark in history by supporting the creation of the new industry of immortality. You have the power to support and create a new industry of immortality to make revolutionary change that will forever reverberate through the pages of history.

With wishes of health and limitless life-span,

Dmitry Itskov
2045 Initiative founder
http://www.2045.com

The prick's even got the World's moralist-in-residence to support him :

http://neurogadget.com/2012/05/03/the-dalai-lama-has-given-his-blessing-to-dmitry-itskovs-avatar-2045-project/4333

Another hi-profile scam, if you ask me... :bang;

Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:33 pm » by **Kinninigan**

Its only the elite who don't wanna die because of all the evil acts they commit, they don't wanna know whats waiting for them when they die.

Humans need to learn how to be "human" before they become robots....

:peep:

Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:12 pm » by **Evildweeb**

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Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:23 pm » by **Flecktarn**

most people act like robots already,call center workers for example

Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:34 pm » by **Lucidlemondrop**

is that second earth just about ready?

Cause I've had enough.

Not wanting to escape, per say..............but wanting an alternative

Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:58 pm » by **99socks**

IMO, this won't become common. Too many people freak out with a "simple" hand transplant; can you imagine and entire body transplant, cyborg-style? :scary:

Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:00 pm » by **Lucidlemondrop**

99socks wrote:IMO, this won't become common. Too many people freak out with a "simple" hand transplant; can you imagine and entire body transplant, cyborg-style?

All is offered, I don't choose that Thank you Ray Kurzwiel...

Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:02 pm » by **Cosmine**

Lucidlemondrop wrote:is that second earth just about ready?

Cause I've had enough.

Not wanting to escape, per say..............but wanting an alternative

Ready it is! Dear.

There's a limited supply of tickets,doe! :twisted:

Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:08 pm » by **monica44**

This is not new idea, the late Dr Karla Turner hinted at this back in the early 90s. The military have known for years that mankind is capable of astral projection, so they utilize this to their ends on tap. The aliens know how easy it is to remove a consciousness from a being put that same consciousness into a contraption and the alien then inhabits the human for short spurts of time until they are done they then return the consciousness back to the human body, we are beings who are capable of much more than we could ever know.

Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:53 pm » by **Edgar 2.0**

I've heard about this Avatar project from the OP while surfing at the Singularity website, a project closely connected to Ray Kurzweil, and Yudkovsky as co-founder. ( http://www.singularityweblog.com/dmitry-itskov-on-singularity-1-on-1-its-time-to-think-about-who-we-are-and-what-is-our-place-in-the-universe/)

Actually, these guys, Kurzweil and Yudkowsky are comparatively no less evil than SETEKH :mrgreen:

Here's one of Yudkowsky's half-assed fictions, called The Baby-Eating Aliens :rtft:

http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction

http://lesswrong.com/lw/y5/the_babyeating_aliens_18/

And Kurzweil keyboards suck anyways. Bob Moog was the real deal.