Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a a movie from the 80s featuring synthetic humans from the Tyrell corporation whose motto is "More Human than Human".   Such can be viewed as a kind of prophesy, a self-fulfilling prophesy, as is much of science fiction.

Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction cyberpunk/tech-noir film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is a modified film adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in which genetically engineered replicants, which are visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation. The use of replicants on Earth is banned and they are exclusively utilized for dangerous or menial work on off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and killed ("retired") by special police operatives known as "Blade Runners". The plot focuses on a group of recently escaped replicants hiding in L.A. and the burnt-out expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.-source wiki

People have talked about metal robots or robots with artificial polymer skins ,these may take place.  But a form of advanced synthetic biology is going to be very hard to surpass,  the only competing less realistic tech is what is called hard nano, whether hard nano can be used to make self-repairing, self-maintaining, ageless humanoids remain in question.   The laws of physics, the true laws, do not forbid the creation of synthetic humans, humans born of intelligent design through computer assisted design software.   

So it may come to pass, that one day, assuming the human world doesn't self destruct, progress will allow for artificial ageless humans of any race, gender or age.   Humans who may be born with synthetic brains filled with knowledge of a thousand lifespans, more than a thousand years of experience from birth.

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A comment on Isaac Arthur's post scarcity video.

The problem with scarcity given absolute automation is a problem of unregulated reproduction.   A likely tech for postscarcity is high automation.   With high automation, comes high security, freedom from accidents and crime.  With automated high speed research, comes freedom from disease, including aging.

I believe that new citizens, newborn citizens deserve the best society has to offer, the best parenting, the best resources, the best education, the best health care, and a guarantee to a slice of the resources of the planet.   We summon a new being, call them, into this world, the least we can do is offer the best we can to someone who didn't ask to come here, but was brought into this world forcefully.   But unregulated reproduction can lead to uncontrolled population growth especially in a world with little death from accident, disease, crime, or (highly reduced disease of  uncontrolled depression)suicide.

Regards easy availability to say food, travel or experiences.  I agree with the comments regarding the final examples of virtual reality overlaid on reality, entoptics and its expansion into other sensory modalities, that technology is also called augmented reality.  We need not necessarily print or manufacture many, actually most things.  In fact nonphysical say food has advantages, it has no calories, it is instantly available in unlimited quantities at the right temperature and exact perfect  'cooking', this also allows unlimited consumption.    All that is needed is the technology of advanced brain computer interfaces, with this both virtual as well as augmented reality will allow for the controlled multisensory collective hallucination of experiences and sensations, such that virtual objects offer smell, physical resistance, touch, taste, etc.

 As for the automation technology, I believe advanced synthetic biology will be the final miniaturization and advancement of our physical technology. With negligible senescence, our machines can self renew, self repair, self replicate automatically at a molecular level, they can also recycle their own components at such molecular level. Using an external energy source, an entirely self-contained system is possible recycling and maintaining all components. Although an internal energy source is also possible using fission, fusion or mini black holes. Combined with a body enhanced by synthetic biology, the human within a synthetic biology facility could last indefinitely, and if digital computation is merged into such tech, experience all the wonders possible through brain computer interfaces.

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What is considered truly dead is under constant change due to technology.   Right now all that keeps man from healing the maim, the blind, the deaf, and even some of what are considered medically dead(if digital physics turns out to be true, there's no form of death that won't be reversible) is technological progress.

The science of mind design, will bring about minds able to accelerate technological progress far far past the rate of man's peak.   Thus it is that the instantiation of the ideal minds, ideal patterns, structures, or the optimal agents, could very well be the true spiritual awakening of the race.   As virtually all that was impossible will be made possible.

Where all the religions of the world pray again and again, and their prayers remain unheard, from time to time a coincidence of the real world's law giving them false confidence in nonsense...    A single prayer from a mind designer, an ideal construct, will be able to basically answer all queries for help. 

The blind will see, the deaf will hear, those who cannot walk will walk, the old will become young, the retarded will become geniuses, the ignorant will become wise beyond any that ever lived, and even the dead will live again.  Cancer, aids, heart disease, aging all eradicated in a single stroke.  

Unlimited time, unlimited experience.  With advanced brain computer interfaces, man will be able to experience anything that is possible at any moment whenever it is desired.   With ageless, immortal, synthetic biology bodies the universe can be traversed.

And with ideal government, the best possible course of action will be undertaken at a global scale.-source nextbigfuture

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