So the universe gets tiled with a sea of barely surviving people similar to humans, who are optimized towards whatever makes them most likely to remain productive in their dreary existence.
So like, the opposite of everyone becoming happy and rich.
Our ancestors were designed with pleasure and pain to motivate them in a near subsistence world. … Our descendants will be similarly adapted to find joy and meaning in their near subsistence lives.
I guess it was a stretch to say that its not like everyone becoming happy.
I don’t think that uploads would require nearly as much matter to lead a happy life. Basically right now if I want to have a nice, warm, comfortable place to sleep and a stomach full of nutritious food, I need to rearrange lots of stuff to physically construct those.
Contrast that with an upload, who can simply have a computer stimulating his emulated neurons in such a way as to make them believe that they were.
I think it’s likely that uploads will need a simulated environment anyway, and I doubt if a pleasant one is harder to simulate than an unpleasant one.
For that reason, I personally think that an upload is more likely to be living in a state of sensory darkness and deprivation (which I would find pretty terrifying) from having no stimulation than in an unpleasant simulation for not being able to afford a nicer one.
So the universe gets tiled with a sea of barely surviving people similar to humans, who are optimized towards whatever makes them most likely to remain productive in their dreary existence.
So like, the opposite of everyone becoming happy and rich.
Well, in Hanson’s words: Poor Folks Do Smile
I guess it was a stretch to say that its not like everyone becoming happy.
I don’t think that uploads would require nearly as much matter to lead a happy life. Basically right now if I want to have a nice, warm, comfortable place to sleep and a stomach full of nutritious food, I need to rearrange lots of stuff to physically construct those.
Contrast that with an upload, who can simply have a computer stimulating his emulated neurons in such a way as to make them believe that they were.
I think it’s likely that uploads will need a simulated environment anyway, and I doubt if a pleasant one is harder to simulate than an unpleasant one.
For that reason, I personally think that an upload is more likely to be living in a state of sensory darkness and deprivation (which I would find pretty terrifying) from having no stimulation than in an unpleasant simulation for not being able to afford a nicer one.