[ExI] Anders Sandberg

[spike at rainier66.com]

Eh, what's three orders of magnitude among friends?

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben
Zaiboc
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2018 11:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Anders Sandberg

Spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

 >If we can make some kind of human-like consciousness with a milligram of
material (thirty billion billion atoms) then we could have a hundred
thousand human-like things for every one of us using just the mass currently
used up as part of an existing human.

More like 75 million. Most humans don't weigh 100 grams. I'm pretty sure
Anders doesn't.


Ben Zaiboc
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Eh, what's three orders of magnitude among friends?

Good catch Ben.  It strengthens my notion, in two ways.  One is the
mega-zotta-Anders business, and the other is that the MKS system has a flaw
we should never have allowed.  The fundamental unit of mass needs a prefix,
the kilogram.  In the everyday world at our scale, we think in terms of
seconds, meters and kilograms.  We should have named the kg the gram.  Then
our food energy system wouldn't be messed up, with kilocalories being called
calories.

I suppose it is too late to change it now.  But... if we manage to upload
into a milligram of material, we can then come up with new words for a
nanogram and make that our fundamental unit: the nam.  A nanometer would be
a neter, and microsecond would be the mecond (because stuff happens fast at
that scale.)

spike