Billionaire Sam Altman and 25 Others Just Paid $10,000 For Company “Nectome” To Upload Their Brain Consciousness For Immortality
Two news articles describing the process:
A Silicon Valley billionaire is paying the ultimate price for immortality: death.
Well, that, and a spare 10 grand.
Entrepreneur Sam Altman is one of 25 people who have splashed the cash to join a waiting list at Nectome – a startup that promises to upload your brain into a computer to grant you eternal life.
There’s just one (huge) catch: It has to kill you first.
The process, as described in the MIT Technology Review, involves embalming your brain for it to potentially be simulated later in a computer.
The living customer would be hooked up to a machine and then pumped full of Nectome’s custom embalming chemicals.
The method is “100 percent fatal,” claims the company.
nypost.com/2018/03/14/billionaire-signs-up-to-be-killed-have-brain-digitally-preserved/
mashable.com/2018/03/13/sam-altman-nectome-brain-upload-y-combinator/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#sxKVStd8rZqU
The company’s website:
nectome.com/
They say it might be a P.R. stunt, but in this day and age…
h/t Panda Bears
They neglected to read the small print in the contract…..IF successful (doubtful) the company will OWN their brain imprinted upload & will most likely end up being ‘resold’ or ‘rented’ to a Video game maker & put in a new Super Mario or Candy Crush video game…LOL.
If I were a billionaire, I would be questioning the measly $10,000 price tag. If this were legitimate, certainly it would cost more than that for immortality. If it doesn’t work, Netcome doesn’t have to worry about refunding the money. The sucker will be dead!