Far more efficiently dealt with by some simple cognitive prostheses like RescueTime… What’s better, a few machine instructions matching a blocked Web address, or reengineering the architecture of the brain with, at a minimum, operant conditioning? This is actually a good example of how a crude ancestral mechanism like pain is not very adaptive or applicable to upload circumstances!
I’ll concede that it’s not terribly likely, then (with the pascal’s wager caveat of it being very bad if it is true (and the anti-caveat that I don’t think the upload scenario is stable anyway))
Selection, not reegineering. The question is whether there are people alive today with the best sets of characteristics to become these malthusian uploads.
Far more efficiently dealt with by some simple cognitive prostheses like RescueTime… What’s better, a few machine instructions matching a blocked Web address, or reengineering the architecture of the brain with, at a minimum, operant conditioning? This is actually a good example of how a crude ancestral mechanism like pain is not very adaptive or applicable to upload circumstances!
I’ll concede that it’s not terribly likely, then (with the pascal’s wager caveat of it being very bad if it is true (and the anti-caveat that I don’t think the upload scenario is stable anyway))
Selection, not reegineering. The question is whether there are people alive today with the best sets of characteristics to become these malthusian uploads.