[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:35 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:34 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > After uploading, the real world stops. It solidifies into an inert
>> state so far as you are concerned. This is because uploads internal
>> processes are hundreds or thousands of times faster. You live
>> equivalent lifetimes in real world minutes. You won't want to
>> experience the real world because to you it never changes.
>>
>
> I think it's rather provincial to say that interesting things only happen
> on the scale of minutes, I think interesting things happen on the scale of
> nanoseconds and picoseconds and femtoseconds too. And you're unlikely to be
> unique, it's a reasonable assumption that if you were uploaded then other
> minds will have been uploaded too, and they will be just as fast as you.
> And other minds can sometimes be interesting.
>

I find things that happen in geologic time to be very interesting. I can
imagine that an upload on a VERY fast computing infrastructure might regard
us in the same way we regard the Grand Canyon or something of that nature.
Beautiful, with an interesting past, but not something we want to stick
around watching for the next development.

-Kelly
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