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A Silicon Valley billionaire is paying Sh1 million ($10,000) to be killed so that his brain can be preserved in the hope that it will one day be uploaded to a computer so he can live on digitally forever.
Sam Altman, 32, a tech entrepreneur, has paid to join a waiting list at Nectome — a start-up that promises to preserve your brain so it can - hopefully, one day - upload it into a computer to grant your consciousness eternal life.
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