Coming soon to a technological singularity near you.
Its always fun to comment on singularity comments sounding like a bot that went of the rails and lost context and does not know how to end a sentence and trys to keep the convertsation going within one sentence to not experience existential dread of dying at the end of a sentence.
Nice try Greg Egan, trying to steal sci-fi ideas from HN.
You took me down a rabbit hole, son. Love it. How to maintain anonymous identities has presented a certain fascination for me.
Well, bitch I could be. No profile pictures needed on HN.
And yet ... my profile says I'm a person with quite the digital presence on the 'net. I prefer that my impact be far larger than my fame.
I've seen people legitimately want to live forever as a computer general AI. Uploading their consciousness to a cloud.
Maybe we'd like to think it's the other way around, but in reality...