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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/10/2024 19:25, Keith Henson
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I discussed why people would have to upload into a shared simulation here.
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A fast-thinking brain in an android body would be like a fly mired in honey.</pre>
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Yes, of course.<br>
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But I think you're stating it backwards. I'd say that people who
want to think fast would need to upload to a shared simulation, not
that uploads would have to think fast. Obviously there are
advantages to thinking fast, but it's still a choice, not a natural
law.<br>
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Think of a grid, with two axes: thinking speed (fast/slow) and
uploaded (yes/no). The fast-thinking uploads would be in the data
centres, the slow-thinking non-uploads already exist (us as we are
now), the slow-thinking uploads would be the androids, and the
fast-thinking non-uploads box would be empty because they don't and
can't exist.<br>
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A consequence of this is that the androids would be separated from
the fast virtual worlds and their inhabitants just as much as
biologicals (but there's no reason that slow shared virtual worlds
couldn't be created. We've already seen their predecessors (Second
Life, etc.). There would also be slow personal virtual worlds (which
is basically what we call imagination, but could be so much more
vivid and extensive)).<br>
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I know you're probably going to say there are good economic and
political reasons that would compel faster and faster thinking, but
as I say, these don't equate to natural law. Maybe in the long run,
everyone would be a fast thinker in a data centre (in the long run
it might become necessary to dismantle a lot of planets. I wonder if
Tabby's star has any planets?), but in the short-term, I think
having the choice would be not only a good thing in itself, but
would potentially help the development of uploading technology, if
not from a technological perspective, then certainly from a
sociological one.<br>
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Ben<br>
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