Second, even with the premise of physical consciousness, I claim that me-simulations could be made at lest 100 billion times less computationally expensive than full simulations. Here are my reasons to believe so:
If there is no point, the saving doesn’t mean anything. If the simulators want to find out how agents interact to shape history, they are going to need multiple accurate simulated people. A me-simulation is a video-game with “me” in cotnrol....they are only going to get information about one person. Why would they be interested?
If there is no point, the saving doesn’t mean anything. If the simulators want to find out how agents interact to shape history, they are going to need multiple accurate simulated people. A me-simulation is a video-game with “me” in cotnrol....they are only going to get information about one person. Why would they be interested?
Yes, I agree that cost-effectiveness does not mean me-simulations would be useful.
What is needed are specific/empiric reasons why such posthuman civilization would want to run those me-simulations, which I haven’t done in this article. However, I tried to give some reasons in the next post (where you also commented) : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8fSaiJX7toRixR6Ee/are-you-living-in-a-me-simulation