[ExI] hard science

[Tomaz Kristan]

rafal:

>  there will be an adaptive radiation of mind designs driven by
evolutionary pressures within the social computational substrate that will
generate a variety of mind types

Very likely, but not entirely necessary. We could put some rules in
advance, what is permitted and what not.

At the trivial case, where no change beyond the current human mind
architecture is allowed and even possible, we would have no new variety.

We could have only certain type of them.

For this, some rules should be adopted in advance. I don't say it's easy, I
say it's possible to put certain limits.


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
> wrote:

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>
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> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:51 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>>
>> So we all have the Superman fantasy:  better body, better brain, etc.
>> Everything I know about psychology says this will happen:  it will become
>> the new normal.  We will adjust to it and be no happier than when we
>> started.
>>
>
> ### I don't think this will be the case. The development of uploading
> technologies, whether by BMI or by destructive scanning, is likely to be
> associated with gaining an intimate understanding of, and the ability to
> precisely modify, the motivational and hedonic substructures of minds being
> uploaded. I do not know if e.g. totally removing the hedonic and aversive
> components of subjective experience is compatible with survival of a mind
> in a social milieu but I am convinced that our present human personality
> repertoire is only a minute subset of all viable mind designs. Therefore,
> once the technological limitations to deeply modifying minds are gone,
> there will be an adaptive radiation of mind designs driven by evolutionary
> pressures within the social computational substrate that will generate a
> variety of mind types, and few of them will be "normal" by our present
> human standards.
>
> Rafal
>
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