The main reason Dysonning the sun can be done at a fast pace is because of the exponential feedback loops. As long as we have some crude way of doing all the steps, then adding uploads allows us to automate the whole process, and get the exponential feedback.
Robots capable of doing that task would be enough, but running and building factories and dealing with problems could be tricky with current AI. Humans can do this, so uploads could as well.
If he’s going to use a word in a way that is so different from it’s normal denotations and connotations, he needs to explain why he’s using that word, and what it means to him.
I don’t think many people have a strong intuition either way about whether the word “automated” should include uploads or not. At least for me, I don’t feel strongly about it either way, and I suspect that many feel similarly.
The paper can be found here: http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Armstrong-Sandberg-Eternity-in-six-hours-intergalactic-spreading-of-intelligent-life-and-sharpening-the-Fermi-paradox.pdf
The main reason Dysonning the sun can be done at a fast pace is because of the exponential feedback loops. As long as we have some crude way of doing all the steps, then adding uploads allows us to automate the whole process, and get the exponential feedback.
But why would you need an exponential number of human-equivalent intelligences for this? Why not much stupider robots?
Robots capable of doing that task would be enough, but running and building factories and dealing with problems could be tricky with current AI. Humans can do this, so uploads could as well.
If a process involves uploads, which are people, then it isn’t “automated.”
This seems to be a comment more that is disputing definitions than actually making a statement about what we actually expect to observe.
If he’s going to use a word in a way that is so different from it’s normal denotations and connotations, he needs to explain why he’s using that word, and what it means to him.
I don’t think many people have a strong intuition either way about whether the word “automated” should include uploads or not. At least for me, I don’t feel strongly about it either way, and I suspect that many feel similarly.