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Sutton's slides for a talk of 3 December 2013 define mental digitization as transferring a person's mind to a digital substrate and conclude that there is no clear reason why digitizing existing people should be nonsense. Copy claim link
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Date 2013-12-03 · event Records dated 2013 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Slides, read without the spoken talk; the slides list open questions on identity, copies and merging.
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The AI Singularity: Prospects for Digital Immortality (slides) ↗ Author's site (incompleteideas.net, Talks page) · 2013-12-03
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Source excerpt “The transfer of the essence of a biological person’s mind to a new physical substrate” Location in source Slide "Mental digitization"
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Source details and check notes Authors Rich Sutton Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 5e9c8053d76e9b3cea1a7db738ef050e35572dcfe09f163077ce7c6d7bd965be). slides PDF linked from the author's Talks page; retrieved over plain HTTP because the site's HTTPS certificate failed verification. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Rich Sutton, “The AI Singularity: Prospects for Digital Immortality (slides)”, 2013-12-03. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 58) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The AI Singularity: Prospects for Digital Immortality (slides) ↗ Author's site (incompleteideas.net, Talks page) · 2013-12-03
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Source excerpt “No clear reason why digitization of existing people should be nonsense” Location in source Slide "So, the prospects for digital immortality are...good"
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Source details and check notes Authors Rich Sutton Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 5e9c8053d76e9b3cea1a7db738ef050e35572dcfe09f163077ce7c6d7bd965be). slides PDF linked from the author's Talks page; retrieved over plain HTTP because the site's HTTPS certificate failed verification. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Rich Sutton, “The AI Singularity: Prospects for Digital Immortality (slides)”, 2013-12-03. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (11 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 58) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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