[ExI] Mind Upload problems

[William Flynn Wallace]

I can see thinking faster can help with calculations, but we have far
faster computers for those problems.  I cannot see how thinking faster can
help with social or emotional problems.   Just as we are, thinking faster
can lead to hasty decisions.  bill w

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 4:25 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 17:05, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I discussed this in The Clinic Seed and in my speculation article
> > "Transhumanism and the Human Expansion into Space: a Conflict with
> > Physics". Archived from the original on November 30, 2012.
> >
> > If we have million to one uploads by mid century, then by the end of
> > the century those people will have 50 million subjective years.
> > However, based on Tabby's star, I don't think people will run that
> > fast.  The faster you run the smaller any communicating group has to
> > be due to light speed.  The largest of those structures is 2.5 seconds
> > across, so they might be running no faster than we do.
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> I can't imagine that mind uploads that are running thousands or
> millions of times faster than humans would voluntarily give up those
> superpowers. Would they really say, 'Oh well, it was nice for a while,
> but let's go back to thinking at the pitifully slow human speed'?
> When uploads are living at those incredibly fast speeds, it effectively
> makes them immortal and freezes the outside world almost to a stop.
> Obviously they would need to plan ahead for security and to keep the
> computer systems running. But at their thinking speed, that would be
> like the timescale of humans planning billions of years ahead for the
> death of the Sun.
> Yes, light speed does mean smaller local groups communicating. But
> once uploads are immortal and living in wonderful virtual worlds, then
> large-scale planetary geoengineering will be forgotten. It would take
> uploaded intelligences millions of virtual years to do anything in the
> outside world.
> That's a possible explanation for the Fermi paradox.
>
>
> BillK
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