Perhaps oddly, this is passage of science fiction that has stuck with me most over the past decade. It was the first time I viscerally felt the different between human time and machine time, and this likely understates it.
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Charles Stross was the first to give me that feeling. And Robin Hanson’s exploration of EM’s is an interesting attempt to do it in economic terms.
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Oh hai! Do you remember which of Stross’ works?
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So many perfect quotes from that book . “Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.”