Here, have a written downvote because I think I’m running low on potential downvotes and don’t want to use one on you. Firstly, I would say that your bolded title doesn’t really provide as much of a description—you’re really saying more that you want to be a fast mind on a slow computer. And secondly… doesn’t that scenario make clear that you would be terribly lonely, if the way you were perceiving things remains the same? I’d much rather coexist with equally fast minds, which in this scenario would be quite likely.
I’d much rather coexist with equally fast minds, which in this scenario would be quite likely.
Seeing this, I realized that one of my fairly high priorities if I were running at a millionfold speedup would be to convince the people I care about to do it as well, both for their own benefit and so that we’d be able to interact.
I suspect that it would take them more than a day to do so, and I also suspect that long before then I would have lost interest in them. A millenium is a long time.
Sad, but true. Perhaps I’d create simulated people similar to them instead. Designing people like that has its own pitfalls, though. A situation where I start as the only upload sounds very not-fun from a social perspective… maybe I’d increase my tendency to introversion to the point where I could be psychologically stable on my own, at least until I had a simulated world to be in.
That sounds very dangerous for your values. For company, just branching yourself and drastically limiting but not zeroing the amount of contact between the branches while having them read different books and doing different tasks and maybe having small differences in settings should be enough to make your brain register it as a different person and have it fulfil the need for social contact.
Yeah, this is more or less what I would do. I don’t think explicit modifications would even be necessary… the simple existence of others would, I think, be enough to drive me in multiple different directions.
Well, I were intending to write more on that post. But I guess i wasn’t clear abut that.
Anyway, the “modification” in this case is running yourself faster than realtime and using a simple simulation instead of say a robotic body. But that’s not really the point.
I guess the reason I thought this to be an appropriate post is the insight that just having lots of time, with no other changes, is enough to enable you to do superhuman things. Yea, it’s all ridiculously obvious to anyone who’ve spent 5 min on LW but I included it for completeness i guess and because later posts might build of it.
Fast Minds and Slow Computers
http://lesswrong.com/lw/44l/fast_minds_and_slow_computers/ Basically: You’ll have lots and lots of time, even as an unaided human you can do a lot with that. This is a very short one because it’s all in the above linked post.
(This is what inspired me to think this kind of subject was OK actually.)
Here, have a written downvote because I think I’m running low on potential downvotes and don’t want to use one on you. Firstly, I would say that your bolded title doesn’t really provide as much of a description—you’re really saying more that you want to be a fast mind on a slow computer. And secondly… doesn’t that scenario make clear that you would be terribly lonely, if the way you were perceiving things remains the same? I’d much rather coexist with equally fast minds, which in this scenario would be quite likely.
Seeing this, I realized that one of my fairly high priorities if I were running at a millionfold speedup would be to convince the people I care about to do it as well, both for their own benefit and so that we’d be able to interact.
I suspect that it would take them more than a day to do so, and I also suspect that long before then I would have lost interest in them. A millenium is a long time.
Sad, but true. Perhaps I’d create simulated people similar to them instead. Designing people like that has its own pitfalls, though. A situation where I start as the only upload sounds very not-fun from a social perspective… maybe I’d increase my tendency to introversion to the point where I could be psychologically stable on my own, at least until I had a simulated world to be in.
That sounds very dangerous for your values. For company, just branching yourself and drastically limiting but not zeroing the amount of contact between the branches while having them read different books and doing different tasks and maybe having small differences in settings should be enough to make your brain register it as a different person and have it fulfil the need for social contact.
Yeah, this is more or less what I would do. I don’t think explicit modifications would even be necessary… the simple existence of others would, I think, be enough to drive me in multiple different directions.
Well, I were intending to write more on that post. But I guess i wasn’t clear abut that.
Anyway, the “modification” in this case is running yourself faster than realtime and using a simple simulation instead of say a robotic body. But that’s not really the point.
I guess the reason I thought this to be an appropriate post is the insight that just having lots of time, with no other changes, is enough to enable you to do superhuman things. Yea, it’s all ridiculously obvious to anyone who’ve spent 5 min on LW but I included it for completeness i guess and because later posts might build of it.