mindfilesResources

A collection of resources related to mindfiles (digital representations of your mind)

Popular introductions

• 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)

Theoretical foundations

• 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

Hardware

Data collection:

• wearable cameras:
  • reviews: 1, 2
  • Amazon best sellers
• digital voice recorders:
  • Amazon best sellers
• overhead scanners:
  • reviews:1, 2, 3
• misc:
  • Quantified_self / Devices_and_services

Data storage:

• 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

Software

Data collection:

• PyKeylogger - a pure-python keylogger for linux
• Mouse tracking for linux - on Python
• capture screens on linux - on Python

Data storage:

• zpaq - an open-source archiver with extremely good compression rates

Reconstruction:

• 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

Sources of data

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)

Places for long-term storage

There is a chance of reanimation:

• Cryonics Institute (US)
• Alcor (US)
• Lifenaut (US)
• Cyberev (US)
• KrioRus (Russia)

No reanimation, but could be useful for long-term backups 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

Orgs, communities

• The Carboncopies Foundation
• Terasem Movement, Inc
• Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc.
• Neuralink
• r/DigitalResurrection
• r/QuantifiedSelf
• facebook/DI_DigitalImmortality (Russian)

Peer-reviewed academic journals

• The Journal of Artificial General Intelligence
• International Journal of Machine Consciousness

Related topics

• Lifelog
• Quantified self
• Digital immortality
• Mind uploading
• Cryonics

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