The Toy Story universe is obviously a computer-generated reality in some posthuman future. The simulation was actually inspired by popular animated films and TV series made in the last years before the singularity.
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If it’s really this difficult, the first humans won’t even bother uploading themselves through neuronal scans, but through extremely indirect (but still unimaginably complex) text and behavior based reverse engineering simulations.
As a lifelong “money pump” this has definitely given me something to think about.
Truly horrible, the unbearable poverty and agonies in this world. This redoubles my conviction we must do everything possible to increase the speed of technological progress.
The most important work performed by AI readers of bad human fiction may be to analyze and indefinitely extend the story universe according to the rules implied in the text itself, without breaking any of the established continuity. It could develop a much deeper understanding of the story than even the author himself.
This story is similar to the classic 1966 Arthur C. Clarke short story “Playback” but much more technically accurate, and also the character wasn’t “rescued” in space by aliens. https://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2008/06/arthur-clarke-playback-short-story.html