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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14869314

"I want to live forever in AI"

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

would've made more sense if it was rust

(or is the copy intential here?)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Plottwist: consciousness is : Copy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's pinned and !Unpin, and only has private constructors.

Uploading is a matter of implementing Clone

[–] RustyNova 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
struct Consciousness {...}

fn upload_brain(brain: Consciousness) -> Result<(), Error>
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

If we're gonna have a dystopian future, then damn it, it's gonna be memory safe.

[–] marcos 3 points 6 months ago

The semantics in Rust would be completely out of wack. What does ownership mean?

I guess the point of the joke is that consciousness is a shallow value.