Are you wasting your time on thinking about mind uploading? (video post)

Depends.
Are you an optimist?

I expose an objective evaluation of the 'usefulness of spending time thinking about mind uploading'.


Spoiler alert!

YES, it is worth spending time on this. So follow me on my journey of spending a lot of time on this and maybe we will meet in silicon heaven!










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