<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:32 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 5:35 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">How could there be any competition among people?</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Assuming competition is desired, devising and implementing the changes necessary to optimize oneself for a given task would likely be nontrivial and would take time, resources, money, etc., to implement. Just because you're in a simulation doesn't mean everything is magic: snap your fingers and BAM, you're the optimal cake baker or CPA or lawyer or whatever. For games, players could agree on various constraints in advance.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If there were still jobs done by 'humans' then if they wanted someone to do matrix algebra you'd just change your code to enable that ability. Of course the true computers would likely be doing that. </font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, that's not a good example. A better one would be creating a work of art: painting a picture, writing a song, writing a poem. Those are things that a few people do well and, so far, only people do well.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">So are we envisioning a life of play while AIs run the planet?</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why not have people inside simulations run the planet, if they could do a better job than AIs? Or at least not fuck it up? But what's wrong with moving beyond the constant struggle to meet biological needs? If I could have chosen a life of leisure over a life of 40 hours/week struggling to keep the family going.</div><div> </div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I think it will be hundreds of years before simulations catch up with reality. The brain is such an incredibly complex thing that just coding in odors,touch,and so on cannot being to rival the experiences of biological life. I could see uploading if the body just becomes too great a burden or is unfixable.</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">You are assuming that AIs will be relied on to proved the electricity for all these sim machines, eh? </span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> I keep coming back to reproduction. Evolution is a game with reproduction as the goal. How does that fit in with uploaded people?</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It depends on the rules of the simulation. If individuals can change quickly, dramatically, and intentionally, what's the point of trying to implement something slow and random like natural selection? </div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Depends on the assumptions. If you assume that all births will be the result of frozen ova and sperm, perhaps from people long dead, raised in artificial wombs, you still can design the genetics of those children.</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Then they will live a life of some duration before uploading.</span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I can also see a role for psychologists and programmers. They would help the uploaded person decide on what he wanted to be and the programmers would achieve that. I just have not thought about this very much and so my ideas are likely to be primitive.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd imagine there'd be a need for <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">psychologists and programmers, though implementing changes would quickly become more like hiring a designer than hiring a coder. There'd likely be a marketplace of modifications and upgrades that have already been implemented. Like, you wouldn't hire a furniture maker, a rug weaver, a paint chemist, etc., to redo your living room today. You'd either pick those things out yourself or work with a professional interior designer who knows what's available, what would work well together, and what would meet your needs.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">As for nanobots, isn't it more likely to be manufactured viruses and bacteria?</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is there a difference? I mean, those are biological nanobots.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I like 'designer' as opposed to coder'- sculpting a new personality and /or body. I assume some things will be irreversible - like getting shorter</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Ideally we'd want to move past playing by the rules of biochemistry in order to do non-biological things.</span><span class="gmail_default"></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I don't know what that means. You want to do non-biological things to a biological body? bill w</div><br></div><div>-Dave </div></div></div>
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