[ExI] Mind Upload problems

[William Flynn Wallace]

Maybe you could create a perfect mind, but with no memories or
personality.  Those would come from the upload.

Suppose we consider the fundamental attributional error:  assuming that
some behavior of the other person reflects their basic personality, whereas
it was only a situational thing.  OK, so program against that.  But how
much better and longer do you have to observe a person before you can
accept that such behavior is rather fixed and permanent?  There is no
perfect solution to this.  And sometimes biases, such as self-confidence
being too high, can actually lead to winning performances.  And some
depressed people see the world more clearly than the rest of us (a finding
that shocked me when I saw it years ago.) I can see a lot of dithering
about such as this.  bill w

On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 9:14 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:38, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> That's true - for the present.  But this is speculation about a future
> time when humans plus AGI super-intelligences have enough knowledge
> and technical ability to upload complete human personalities into a
> computing substrate.
> (i.e. It's all airy-fairy nonsense - but interesting).  :)
>
> As you say, it would be very dangerous to upload humans with
> personality problems into super-speed computers. I think there would
> have to be some correction system in the process. Either during the
> upload or in the virtual world, where more advanced intelligences know
> how to remove errors in uploaded human personalities.
>
> BillK
>
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