# We will upgrade you.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-upgrade-you/536260>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 15, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-upgrade-you/536260 "2010-04-15T21:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-upgrade-you/536260/21 "2010-04-16T15:34:23Z")

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I can’t say that being of high intelligence (relative to people around me) or having an eidetic memory has made me particularly happy or even overly successful in any manifest way, so I’m not especially enthusiastic about upgrades. As far as physical abilities, while there are some items I would like to bring up to spec (like eyesight), artificially enhancing natural abilities like strength or endurance takes away from the challenge of developing those abilities via exercise and effort. It would be like playing video game with cheat codes.

Stranger

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**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-upgrade-you/536260/22 "2010-04-16T15:52:33Z")

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> [@alterego](#):
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> It’s not a reference to “we will rock you” but rather a reference to “we will assimilate you”

So I’ve been going ::stomp, stomp, clap! Stomp, stomp, clap!:: while reading this thread for nothing? ☹

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**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-will-upgrade-you/536260/23 "2010-04-16T17:30:19Z")

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Hmm, enough with current development, cutting-edge AI can’t measure up to the capacity and capabilities of the human brain.

However, if there is a way to digitalized my memories I will do it. The permanet memory is just a start - someday I may be able to have my memories implanted into a new body, and resuming being ‘me’!

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