[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Martin Sustrik]

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On 06/01/14 14:55, Mirco Romanato wrote:

> given the subjective time inside a simulation is like hundred or 
> thousand time faster than in real life, the people inside the
> simulation need to be able to plan for centuries or millenniums
> ahead. It would suck to be left without electric power to run the
> simulation if no one think about building new power plants,
> maintain the grid and so on.
> 
> So, in my opinion, if a group of people upload themselves inside a 
> simulation (and are able to interact with the external world), they
> must be able to plan ahead in a way normal humans are not designed
> to do, because they must do so to survive in the long term.

Btw, solving the problem of different timescales would also solve the
problem of interstellar travel/communication. If single entity is able
to operate on both 10^-9 sec and 10^1 sec timescales, it can as well
operate on 10^7 sec timescale needed for interacting with Alpha Centuari.

Martin

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