A collection of resources related to mindfiles (digital representations of your mind)
- Bell, Gordon; Gemmell, Jim (2010) Your Life Uploaded: The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity
- Duncan, Bruce (2013). Re-creating Ourselves: Mindfiles and Androids (video)
- Rothblatt, Martine (2014). What Are Mindfiles?
- Turchin, Alexei (2015) Digital Immortality Map: Reconstruction of the Personality Based on its Information Traces
- Hanson, Robin (2016). The Age of Em
- Turchin, Alexei (2019). Digital Immortality: How to gather information about yourself so that the future AI can bring you back to life (video, Russian)
- Turing, Alan (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460.
- Sandberg, Anders; Boström, Nick (2008). Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap
- Seymour, Leslie (2014). Declarative Consciousness for Reconstruction. 10.2478/jagi-2013-0007.
- Merkle, Ralph (2016). Information-Theoretic Death
- Turchin, Alexei (2018). Digital Immortality: Theory and Protocol for Indirect Mind Uploading
- wearable cameras:
- reviews: 1, 2
- Amazon best sellers
- digital voice recorders:
- overhead scanners:
- misc:
- Highly durable data storage (as of 2019):
| Medium | Claimed longevity | Cost per TB | Minimal cost of hardware |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linear Tape-Open | 30 years | ~$50 | ~$300 |
| M-DISC | 1000 years | ~$130 | ~$100 |
| Nanofiche | >1000 years | ~$10 000 (?) | $50 000 |
| Paper books on demand | >1000 years in some conditions | > ~$1 000 000 | $50 |
- PyKeylogger - a pure-python keylogger for linux
- Mouse tracking for linux - on Python
- capture screens on linux - on Python
- zpaq - an open-source archiver with extremely good compression rates
- Replika App - a chatbot that is trying to learn your personality
- Olivia - on open-source chatbot
- lstm_text_generation - text generation
- GPT-2 - text generation
- Progressive Growing of GANs - generation of faces
- DAVS - talking face generation
Digitalizing and preserving these data about yourself could be useful:
- diaries
- genotype
- Brain imagining results: EEG, CT, MRI (especially fMRI!) etc
- Results of psychological tests
- Records of all your important ideas, with timestamps (there are apps for that)
- Records of all your goals and projects (e.g. through the "Getting Things Done" method)
- a detailed biography
- Bank statements
- completed calendars, notebooks
- relevant photos, audio and video recordings:
- selfies
- friends and relatives
- places visited (especially your places of residence)
- household items, toys, food etc.
- Correspondence (offline)
- correspondence (online): emails, social networks, etc.
- Browser history
- the list of mobile phone calls, SMS
- Records of your computer activities:
- regular screenshots
- mouse movements
- Keyboard
- Your works: sketches, books you wrote, software etc
- the list of all the books and films you have ever read/seen
- the list of all places where you have ever lived
- geolocation records
- user data downloads from online services (Google Takeout, Facebook etc)
- Some banks (e.g. in Switzerland)
- Internet Archive
- Cloud Services: e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox (Worldwide)
- Astrobotic (the moon)
- Archmission (Space)
- Familysearch.org
- 23andme - for a DNA backup
- onlim - a company that develops customized chatbots
- Living Obit - professional obituaries for the living
- The Carboncopies Foundation
- Terasem Movement, Inc
- Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc.
- Neuralink
- r/DigitalResurrection
- r/QuantifiedSelf
- facebook/DI_DigitalImmortality (Russian)
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