[ExI] ETs/Aliens

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 1:59 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> While The Clinic Seed deals with the impact of uploading itself on human
> society, what I had in mind was afterwards (in a setting where the initial
> effects of uploading are over and it's a common or even universal thing), a
> more focused exploration of the societal implications of the ability of
> uploads to change how quickly time flows for them. Implications for both
> the uploaded and the un-uploaded (assuming there are any). How this ability
> might affect interpersonal relationships, people's psychology and how it
> could change the way society functions. How it may be, for some, not just
> an ability but a necessity, for various reasons (like sustaining a
> multi-tiered system with different units running at different clock-speeds,
> as per my previous post).
>

Have you read Greg Egan's "Permutation City"?

Many ideas of uploaded 'being' are handled matter-of-factly in the course
of the larger story.

"Diaspora" goes even farther with a protagonist creation from
semi-randomness, then escaping the confines of the successively weirder
universes while discovering the rules of a metaverse

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