<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 1:59 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div><br>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).<br></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have you read Greg Egan's "Permutation City"?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many ideas of uploaded 'being' are handled matter-of-factly in the course of the larger story.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"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</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div></div>
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