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[–] Letshaveascrap 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

No, they'll pretend they can do it. They'll convince people that their terminally ill parent who opted to live in the cloud is really them. How? They've got every search they ever made, including all voice searches, messages etc. They know all their family, friends, wishes, fears etc. No wonder people will believe them. These pretend, would be dead friends and relatives will say how everything is better in the cloud, that they can have everything they ever wished for, every desire no matter how bad that desire is legal in the cloud. You can be superman or spiderman if you like. Everything about it is better than the old analogue life.

Then they'll allow a select few healthy people to download their brains into the computer. They too will say how wonderful it is and how everyone should do it. It'll all be so convincing that even you will believe it's real. You'll save up your money and happily pay to download your brain. Then they'll plug you in, the lights will go out and that'll be the end of you. Sure a perfect simulation of you will be used to convince people you know to join you. You'll be stone cold dead.

It'll be the biggest mass murder in the history of the world, and you'll have queued up and paid to be murdered.