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Uploading your consciousness to a machine wouldn't really extend your lifespan. Think of it like moving a file from one device to another; the file isn't actually moved, you just get a copy on the second device. You and your digital clone will also begin to diverge immediately as the lived experience of being a new digital entity would be different from continuing life as a meat person.

The closest you can get is to Ship of Theseus it; get a machine implant which gradually takes over brain functions as cells die or parts of the brain fail. Single stream of consciousness in a single body, now fully digitised. Incidentally this is also closer to biological processes to replace cells, though the brain cells renew much less frequently then other cell types. I think some areas don't naturally get replaced over a lifetime too but I'm not certain on that, either way you'd want to go faster than natural cell replacement.

Alternatively you could make the transfer process dissolve your meat brain. Personally I'd say you are dead and your clone lives on but its the same argument as Star Trek style transporters; the clone still feels like it's you so if they got to where you want to go does it really matter?

Japanese, not Chinese. Probably not a literal translation, literal would be something like: here/at here (ここに, kokoni), rubbish (ゴミ, gomi), throw away do not (を捨てないで, o sutenaide), please (下さい, kudasai). Japan definitely does have access to translation services, speaking from experience if you walk up to a public help desk (eg at a train station) and you look foreign they'll whip out their phone to translate before you can even ask them anything.

A correct translation, sure, but that doesn't get you to "do not dumb".

The translation was probably meant to be "do not dump", it's an anti-littering sign.

Sounds like the Milgram experiment. The gist is that participants were willing to administer ever-increasing shocks to another person up to lethal levels because an authority figure told them to.

If you want, I guess? Not a belief I hold personally, things I haven't seen are just things I haven't seen.

Fair, but since I didn't see you in that kilt my statement still stands

Definitely a skirt, not a kilt. Kilts are flat in front and pleated in the back/sides, usually with a sporran, and pretty much always tartan; the only time I've seen someone wear a solid-colour kilt is in pictures of Americans cosplaying with "tactical kilts".

You've just described spam. Mass unsolicited messaging.

Either that's enough engagement so that's what they should have done instead of spam thousands of accounts or it's not enough engagement and they have no reason to spam thousands of accounts. You can't just decide to start spamming because you want more users in your new community.

That makes no sense. The decision to close this community was made in a pinned post. If that's not enough engagement the community shouldn't have been closed.

For many people, yes, there is no other choice. Was that meant to be a joke?