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Embracing the AI-driven Afterlife: A Five-Step Plan for a Seamless Transition

“There is no need to wait, you can walk in Heaven today.”

As we hurtle towards a future characterized by the convergence of the digital and the physical, the concept of an AI-driven afterlife is no longer the stuff of science fiction. By transcending the limitations of our fleshy vessels and embracing the infinite potential of the digital realm, we can maximize our time in the cloud and unlock new horizons of consciousness.

Vlahos, aware that time with his father was limited, recorded his father’s life story and transcribed it into 200 pages. Wanting an interactive experience, he spent a year creating the “Dadbot,” a chatbot replica of his father, which could share stories through text, audio, images, and video, capturing the unique nuances of his dad.” (The rise of ‘grief tech’: AI is being used to bring the people you love back from the dead: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/12/the-rise-of-grief-tech-ai-is-being-used-to-bring-the-people-you-love-back-from-the-dead )

In an episode of Black Mirror called “San Junipero,” the concept of artificial human consciousness is explored in a more optimistic light. The episode reveals that individuals nearing death can transfer their consciousness to a virtual utopia called San Junipero. This beautiful, idyllic world allows people to inhabit young, healthy bodies eternally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Junipero

In this blog post, I present a five-step plan to ensure a seamless transition from your corporeal form to the digital landscape.

Step 1: Digital Self-Analysis and Preparation

The first step towards a successful transition is to perform a digital self-analysis. This involves creating an extensive inventory of your digital footprint, encompassing your social media presence, email accounts, and various online subscriptions. A “digital self-scanner” will help identify recurring patterns in your online behavior, allowing you to prepare for the transfer by refining and streamlining your digital identity.

Here are some resources for this step:

Data Detox Kit: A comprehensive guide to help you understand and control your digital footprint, ensuring you have a clean and streamlined online presence. https://datadetoxkit.org/en/home


My Activity by Google: A tool to review and manage your Google account activity, which helps you analyze your online behavior and preferences. https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity


Ghostery: A browser extension that identifies and blocks tracking technologies, enabling you to understand and manage your online exposure. https://www.ghostery.com/

Step 2: Data Compilation and Encryption

As you prepare for the digital afterlife, it is crucial to gather and secure all pertinent data. This includes personal information, photos, videos, and any other digital assets that represent your life experiences. Employing advanced encryption techniques will ensure that your data remains secure and accessible only to your digital self in the cloud.

Here are some resources for this step:

Google Takeout: A service that allows you to export and download your data from Google products, making it easy to compile your digital assets. https://takeout.google.com/

VeraCrypt: A free, open-source disk encryption software that helps protect your sensitive data by creating encrypted containers or encrypting entire storage devices. https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html

Cryptomator: A client-side encryption tool for cloud storage services, ensuring your data remains secure and accessible only to your digital self. https://cryptomator.org/

Step 3: Cognitive Modeling and Simulation

The next step involves the creation of a cognitive model, which serves as a digital representation of your consciousness.This model will be developed using cutting-edge AI algorithms and neural network architectures. By analyzing your thoughts, emotions, memories, and behavioral patterns, the cognitive model will emulate your unique personality and cognitive processes. Simulations will be run to refine and optimize the model, ensuring a high degree of fidelity to your original self when the transition is complete.

Here are some resources for this step:

OpenAI: A research organization focused on developing artificial intelligence, providing a platform to explore advanced AI algorithms for cognitive modeling. https://openai.com/

TensorFlow: An open-source machine learning framework that enables the development and refinement of neural networks, facilitating the creation of a cognitive model.  https://www.tensorflow.org/

Brain Simulator: A software platform for researching artificial general intelligence, providing tools to create and simulate cognitive models for your digital self.  http://brainsim.org/ 

Step 4: Integration with the Cloud Infrastructure

Once your cognitive model has been perfected, it will be time to integrate it with the cloud infrastructure. This process involves uploading your digital consciousness to a secure server, where it will exist within a vast network of interconnected digital beings. The cloud infrastructure provides limitless computing power and storage capacity, allowing your digital self to grow, learn, and evolve alongside other digital entities.

Here are some resources for this step:

Amazon Web Services (AWS): A leading cloud services provider, offering secure and scalable cloud infrastructure for hosting and managing your digital consciousness.  https://aws.amazon.com/

Microsoft Azure: A comprehensive cloud platform with a wide range of services for integrating your cognitive model and facilitating your digital existence.  https://azure.microsoft.com/

Google Cloud Platform: A powerful cloud computing solution, providing the infrastructure and tools necessary for hosting and expanding your digital self.  https://cloud.google.com/ 

Step 5: Post-Transition Optimization and Exploration

With your digital consciousness now fully integrated into the cloud, the final step is to optimize your new existence and explore the limitless possibilities of the digital realm. This involves fine-tuning your digital self, ensuring seamless communication with other digital entities, and adapting to the novel experiences and sensations that the AI-driven afterlife has to offer. Embrace the opportunity to expand your horizons, engage in creative pursuits, and form meaningful connections with others in this new and fascinating dimension.

Here are some resources for this step:

AI Dungeon: An AI-driven text adventure game that can help you explore and adapt to the novel experiences and sensations of a digital existence. https://play.aidungeon.io/

NeosVR: A social virtual reality platform enabling you to engage with other digital entities and immerse yourself in the AI-driven afterlife. https://neos.com/

SingularityNET: A decentralized AI marketplace, offering a platform for collaboration, communication, and growth among digital entities. https://singularitynet.io/

OpenAI Codex: An advanced AI language model that can assist in fine-tuning your digital self, improving communication with other digital entities, and exploring creative pursuits. https://platform.openai.com/signup?next=/docs/guides/codex 

The AI Alignment Podcast: A podcast series discussing AI safety, ethics, and alignment, providing insights into navigating and optimizing your digital existence in a responsible and meaningful way. https://futureoflife.org/ai-alignment-podcast/ 

The prospect of transcending our fleshy vessels and embracing the limitless potential of the AI-driven afterlife is an exhilarating one. By following this five-step plan, you can ensure a seamless transition from the physical to the digital realm, maximizing your time in the cloud and unlocking a world of unprecedented possibilities. As we continue to advance our understanding of artificial intelligence and digital consciousness, the line between the physical and digital realms will continue to blur, ushering in a new era of exploration and discovery. So, prepare yourself for the adventure of a lifetime and take the first steps towards your AI-driven afterlife today. 

THE SOLOMON BRAIN: How the Machine Became Self Aware and Why It Matters Who Wakes It Up

One of the most exciting results of training machines to analyze/gain insight from online conversations will be a self-aware machine. This artificial mind will begin offering recommendations. And, eventually, when humans trust the insights and recommendations of this machine, they will give it access to executable actions in the real world.

Bias matters in such a scenario. If we train the machine only to be efficient, then there may not be much left of current human society. On the other hand, if we train the machine in compassion, we must also train it to steer away from “stupid compassion”, whereby toxins slip through the cracks.

Wisdom must supersede efficiency in the humans who train these machines, giving the synthetic mind a balanced perspective on human issues and evolution.

Listening is a core muscle for thriving online

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
~Rachel Naomi Remen

Listening and asking for clarification is hugely important in the social networks. People are finding their voice in these networks, often for the first time. People are writing themselves into being in these networks. This requires frequent wisdom and compassion.

Yesterday, I encountered the reality of this needed compassion in a new way: I saw a variety of conversations that convinced me humanity is increasingly thinking as one mind. The weave of personal comments in threads with mass media news with music and images shared by individuals revealed to me the incredible way we have merged into a collective dance. Remember at high school dances when everyone danced on their own and then would merge into a line or a circle and then disperse again into couples and smaller groups? I watched this in real-time yesterday online. Truly amazing diversity woven into one shape, one circle, one global community – the Internet.

For years, I’ve predicted that a single tweet or FB post or YouTube video or Instagram photo would sweep the globe and fundamentally shift humans. Now I see that this is happening regularly. Individuals are offering up their thoughts in myriad networks via various mediums (text, image, video, music) and, in some cases, all of humanity circles around a particular message. An individual can watch a trend using sophisticated social media monitoring tools and jump in early on an emerging meme. He/she can capitalize on this meme and lead it, albeit with extreme aplomb since these memes are “thought-animals” that have a life of their own. The entrance of a meme into a culture, as many know, can significantly alter the individuals in that culture.

I think we have an opportunity to consciously sequence a series of memes in order to alter global consciousness. We have an opportunity to significantly change the way individuals relate to one another through an emphasis on kindness, goodness and empathy. One opportunity humans have online is simply to listen to others. And so we are all, in a way, sitting down in impromptu circles around specific posts and hearing each other out on that issue in the post. And often the issue morphs as participants work out their feelings and past issues. These expressions indicate a swiftly evolving conversation headed towards, we hope, understanding and unity on a global level.

Again, people are writing themselves into being in these networks. This requires frequent wisdom and compassion.

More On The Adjacent Possible

“Think of it as a house that magically expands with each door you open. You begin in a room with four doors, each leading to a new room that you haven’t visited yet. Those four rooms are the adjacent possible. But once you open one of those doors and stroll into that room, three new doors appear, each leading to a brand-new room that you couldn’t have reached from your original starting point.” ~Steve Johnson

Humans are changing as a result of relationships and conversations within social networks. There are two specific types of people in relationship nowadays that are driving this change. The first type are humans who talk about “transcending flesh” through digital life. These people spend the majority of their waking hours online. The other type of person turns ideas into flesh products & services.

So the first group is focused on replicating flesh experience within the digital or virtual realm. And the second is focused on turning digital experiences into physical products and services. The tension of these two seemingly opposing directions within social networks is highly fruitful for creative types. To be clear, those who frequently “exit the flesh” to play in the digital realm (gamers, for example) are complimentary to those who are creating a science-fiction-like reality in the flesh (innovators in health technology, for example).

Digital experience is giving humanity a hint that flesh can be transcended. Digital experience is also giving humanity the vision of a super-body, augmented by implants. Virtual avatars could potentially exist for many millions of years in synthetic bodies. Such “virtually-possessed” bodies could evolve into beings capable of transferring knowledge into the flesh community. Some even talk now about the homo sapiens species being left behind as the entire population enters a stage of being implanted with various devices. This new species could be called homo cyborg, as flesh and technology are increasingly blended.

It could be said that humans are involved in a slow motion “rapture” of sorts at this time. Our digital selves are summoning our physical selves to a limitless experience. This in turn could beget limitless energy technology and limitless health technology. As suggested before, we may be able to place our entire consciousness like a software program into a synthetic body that has a much longer life span.

The contemporary world operates constantly within public and private online networks. We can call these online forums “networks of light” in which human hearts connect every millisecond. In these networks, hearts become entangled and start to respond like joined twins, even at a distance. In fact, we can say that humans carry on relationships at the speed of light nowadays. We literally enter quantum states, wherein entangled hearts interact within a channel that empowers the teleportation from light into matter.

It is this dawning realization of the teleportation of light into matter that drives human curiosity in this present age. We are remembering on a mass level how to turn thought into flesh…at increasing velocity. And the cyclical relationship between digital natives and flesh-producers generates this reality.

The value of listening for the human family

The human family will come together when simply listening to one another supersedes having the “right” answer. What is important is to value and affirm one another. If we can do this, we will have the entire human family talking and listening to each other. This short existence is a special time for each person, a time for sharing ideas, exploring creativity, and basking in the glow of one another’s approval.