# Who's up for some immortality?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-up-for-some-immortality/622898>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 24, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-up-for-some-immortality/622898 "2012-05-24T00:27:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-up-for-some-immortality/622898/21 "2012-05-26T20:50:32Z")

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If human brain to robot transfers ever became a reality, I’m not sure if I’d do it or not, but I’m leaning towards no. And I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live as a hologram.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-up-for-some-immortality/622898/22 "2012-05-27T00:19:19Z")

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I thought by the year 2040 we were supposed to have already achieved the singularity. So if this is the case, then that means that in Russia, Avatars create YOU!

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-up-for-some-immortality/622898/23 "2012-05-27T01:19:10Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I thought by the year 2040 we were supposed to have already achieved the singularity. So if this is the case, then that means that in Russia, Avatars create YOU!

Here I am, talking about something as serious as immortality, and you give me pseudo-science and a Yakov Smirnoff joke? :rolleyes:

😃

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