For non-human animal brains, I would compare them to the baseline of individuals in their own species.
For transhumans that had their mind expanded, I don’t think there’s an obvious way to get an equivalence. What would be a subjective year for a Jupiter brain?
Maybe it could be in terms of information processed, but in that case, a Jupiter brain would be living A LOT of subjective time per objective time.
Ultimately, given I don’t have “intrinsic” diminishing returns on additional experience, the natural definition for me would the amount of ‘thinking’ that is as valuable. So a subjective year for my future Jupiter brain would be the duration for which I find that experience as valuable as a subjective year now.
Maybe that could even account for diminishing value of experience at a specific mind size because events would start looking more and more similar?? But it otherwise wouldn’t work for people that have “intrinsic” diminishing returns on additional experience. It would notably not work with people for whom marginal experiences start becoming undesirable at some point.
Interestingly, an hour in childhood is subjectively equal between a day or a week in adulthood, according to recent poll I made. As a result, the middle of human life in term of subjective experiences is somewhere in teenage.
Also, experiences of an adult are more dull and similar to each other.
Tin Urban tweeted recently: “Was just talking to my 94-year-old grandmother and I was saying something about how it would be cool if I could be 94 one day, a really long time from now. And she cut me off and said “it’s tomorrow.” The “years go faster as you age” phenomenon is my least favorite phenomenon.”
How to calculate subjective years of life?
If the brain is uniformly sped up (or slowed down), I would count this as proportionally more (or less)
Biostasis would be a complete slow down, so wouldn’t count at all
I would not count unconscious sleeping or coma
I would only count dreaming if some of it is remembered ([https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/F8iTtzSgxRmmcCrWE/for-what-x-would-you-be-indifferent-between-living-x-days?commentId=FbfeG2mZPew3enNPF](more on this))
For non-human animal brains, I would compare them to the baseline of individuals in their own species.
For transhumans that had their mind expanded, I don’t think there’s an obvious way to get an equivalence. What would be a subjective year for a Jupiter brain?
Maybe it could be in terms of information processed, but in that case, a Jupiter brain would be living A LOT of subjective time per objective time.
Ultimately, given I don’t have “intrinsic” diminishing returns on additional experience, the natural definition for me would the amount of ‘thinking’ that is as valuable. So a subjective year for my future Jupiter brain would be the duration for which I find that experience as valuable as a subjective year now.
Maybe that could even account for diminishing value of experience at a specific mind size because events would start looking more and more similar?? But it otherwise wouldn’t work for people that have “intrinsic” diminishing returns on additional experience. It would notably not work with people for whom marginal experiences start becoming undesirable at some point.
Interestingly, an hour in childhood is subjectively equal between a day or a week in adulthood, according to recent poll I made. As a result, the middle of human life in term of subjective experiences is somewhere in teenage.
Also, experiences of an adult are more dull and similar to each other.
Tin Urban tweeted recently: “Was just talking to my 94-year-old grandmother and I was saying something about how it would be cool if I could be 94 one day, a really long time from now. And she cut me off and said “it’s tomorrow.” The “years go faster as you age” phenomenon is my least favorite phenomenon.”