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Marinara-Trench
[22:39] we got this
Frognose
[22:39] Dude we don’t got this
Jocelyn Around
[22:39] We didn’t even make it to the third phase.
Lilybell Fortemps
[22:40] so
[22:40] one more go?
Jocelyn Around
[22:40] Sorry, I have to get to bed early. Dr’s appt in the morning.
Lilybell Fortemps
[22:40] awwww
Frognose
[22:41] Is everything okay?
Jocelyn Around
[22:41] Yeah, just annual checkup.
Marinara-Trench
[22:42] make sure you kick them on purpose when they take the hammer to your knee
The Devil Reversed
[22:43] They’re not gonna do a brain scan, are they?
Jocelyn Around
[22:43] Probably. They do it every year, so...
The Devil Reversed
[22:43] Nooooo don’t let them
Marinara-Trench
[22:44] yeah if you’re gonna go crazy you do it on YOUR TERMS
[22:44] don’t let them stop you!
The Devil Reversed
[22:44] Shut up, Trench, I’m serious
Lilybell Fortemps
[22:45] whats wrong w brain scnaning
Jocelyn Around
[22:45] I think I missed something.
The Devil Reversed
[22:45] At least ask if they can do an old-school, like, EEG or MRI instead of a full-on QSUI
Lilybell Fortemps
[22:45] scanning*
Jocelyn Around
[22:46] Why though
nate the snake
[22:47] ohhhh qsuis are like
[22:47] The one that just straightup copies oyur brain to the internet right
The Devil Reversed
[22:47] To a digitized format but yeah
[22:48] It encodes your brain and everything about it as a computer program, a really big one
Marinara-Trench
[22:48] oh dang
The Devil Reversed
[22:49] That’s how they can SO accurately check your like mhealth and risk factors
Marinara-Trench
[22:49] cool
Jocelyn Around
[22:52] ..okay... so what’s the problem?
The Devil Reversed
[22:53] They are literally making a clone of you
[22:53] QSUI scans are literally sentient
nate the snake
[22:53] their ROBOT CLONES
The Devil Reversed
[22:55] The scans get saved basically forever, they use them in medical research mostly but sometimes sell some batches to companies to do stuff AI isnt suited for
[22:56] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk fo rexample
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a worksourcing website for businesses (known as Requesters) to hire virtual workers to perform discrete on-demand tasks that artificial intelligences are currently unable to do. Remote human workers were utilized until 2029, when advances in quantum ...
nate the snake
[22:57] oh wow their robot SLAVE clones
Frognose
[22:57] I mean, they have a choice of whether to do the job or not.
The Devil Reversed
[22:58] They’re sentient computer programs, they get SHUT DOWN if they refuse to do the work
Marinara-Trench
[22:58] do u get paid
Jocelyn Around
[22:59] That sucks and all but
[22:59] I have genetic markers for a couple different brain problems.
[22:59] Am I just supposed to not get the scan?
Lilybell Fortemps
[23:00] just get the scan, you’ll be fine.
[23:00] imma go make a donation to that quantum scan rights org the wiki mentioned
Jocelyn Around
[23:01] Good idea!
Marinara-Trench
[23:01] its not like one person or even like ALL OF US deciding not to get anymore qsui scans would stop it from happening
The Devil Reversed
[23:01] No it wouldn’t but think about it.
Marinara-Trench
[23:02] im thinkin about it
Lilybell Fortemps
[23:03] đź’
The Devil Reversed
[23:03] If your brain image gets used its gonna think like you and think it IS YOU. It has ALL YOUR MEMORIES including right up until when you GOT THE SCAN. So if you think about it PERCENTAGEWISE
Jocelyn Around
[23:04] ???
The Devil Reversed
[23:04] There are 1000s of people in the future who have the memory of being you right now having this conversation
[23:04] What are the odds of YOU winding up being the one who actually comes out of the machine?
Jocelyn Around
[23:09] It’s not a machine they put you into, it’s a helmet they put on your head.
The Devil Reversed
[23:09] Oh ok that TOTALLY solves the problem