[ExI] immortal

[Kelly Anderson]

I'd reason that running one human mind equivalent at human-like speed
inside of some kind of VR full of other entities running at the same speed
is something that could be "free" for every human that wishes to be
uploaded. It's got to be cheaper than feeding them. Thus the have nots will
have a kind of ubi of computational status quo.

The haves would do one of a few things. They would either run multiple
threads of consciousness, and merge them back into the core self after a
period of time (i.e. I go learn Chinese in a thread, then come back and
incorporate that knowledge into my core self), or divide and never
recombine. Or just run one single thread way faster, and with more
"neurons" so you become a super intelligence. Of course, you could be a
multi-threaded super intelligence too, so there's always a place for "more".

As to how one affords such stuff, like always, by contributing something
someone else wants.

My personal bet for the nearer term future is to have property (land) and
function, in my case machinery that can turn ideas into concrete things. I
specialize in wood things. I think that even if AI is running the world,
they'll still need a CNC to turn wood into things people and robots want.
This is different from a job. We've always thought of ourselves in terms of
labor and capital, us being the labor. I think in the near future, it will
be heavily skewed towards capital. And labor will take care of itself.
So... what does a world look like when capital is a hundred times more
important than labor? We're probably about to find out. I recommend getting
some capital in your life of some kind.

-Kelly


On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> So let's say that uploading brains works and as long as the system
> supporting you is OK you are OK.
>
> But to use an old saying:  there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.  How
> will you pay for your upkeep a thousand years, ten thousand years, from
> uploading? Will there be a publish or perish requirement?  Or some such?
>  bill w
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