[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

[efc at disroot.org]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 at 09:30, efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> Well, people are different. Some might, some might not. Unless upload is
>> forced, I don't really see the point of the question, since it will answer
>> itself eventually.
>>
>> My _personal_ opinion is that I would enjoy the living in the real world,
>> seeing real, physical achievements, perhaps keeping in touch with
>> non-uploaded people, helping move non-uploaded humanity forward etc.
>>
>> When I'm "bored" with it, I can then either terminate myself, or upload
>> myself to an semi-infinite and permanent happyland and live in my own
>> creation endlessly stimulating my pleasure circuits. ;)
>>
>> Jokes aside, I think it would probably feel more dignified to just
>> terminate when I feel I'm done.
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>
>
> Yes, Uploading won't be forced. Unless there is a societal collapse,
> so that non-uploaded humanity finds survival to be more and more
> difficult due to population reduction.
>
> I don't see the uploads as a static population living in 'happy-land'.  :)
> Due to much faster processing, they will evolve rapidly and become
> alien to non-uploaded humanity. Communication between real world and
> uploads will be impossible. Later uploads will need special procedures
> before they can be merged into the rapidly evolving upload society.
> We can't know what challenges and tasks will engage this alien
> society. Think of them as humanity after thousands of years of
> advancement and exploration.
> The uploads see the real world as frozen and unchanging.
>

That makes sense. I imagine that another feature would be "pause". Imagine 
you're an uploaded being performing experiments in the real world to 
advance science. Instead of having to wait a thousand years, subjective 
time, you could pause until the experiment is done, and start again.

On the other hand, I imagine that this would end up having different 
beings running at different subjective times, some would build their own 
mind castles, some would seek community, others, let's say 
experimentalists, might want to pause due to constraints from the external 
world.