[ExI] jbrains again, was: RE: Early Archives... Re: Yudkowsky 'Humanity's remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50'

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
BillK via extropy-chat
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The comparison is between a giant centralised intelligence and a giant
decentralised group of tiny intelligences.

The uploads would think faster, be tightly interconnected and share a common
knowledge database. They would be working together for goals that we can
hardly imagine.

The present mass of humanity doesn't work like that. Every individual has
their own agenda, different abilities, different knowledge, often fighting
against other humans, and generally being pretty inefficient.
That's what being human means, and why I think that uploads won't be like
humans for very long.

BillK
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Ja, BillK that is part of the reason why I don't see JBrains as a viable
seat for uploaded humans: we are genetically pre-programmed to fight each
other for survival or dominance over other intelligences in any form, such
as political power or promotion of a religion for instance.  We are poor
starting material indeed for uploading into something really powerful like
clusters of JBrains.  We suck, but it isn't our fault really: without
competition presented by evolution, we never would have crushed other
species, and our tech culture would not have developed to make JBrains to
start with.  We didn't choose to be us, evolution chose us for us.

spike