Geoffrey MillerVerified account

The thing I can’t stand about this episode is that apparently running emulations of human minds at 100000x speed has zero computational cost? That cop at the end just racked up the largest AWS bill in history and bankrupted his city

Not to mention the fact that within one month of human ems existing we enter into the technocapital singularity and a vengeful AI god destroys the world, 100% chance. At the least, there is an economic singularity, see @robinhanson ‘s book Em World

Meh, we've long known that it is possible to torture humans. I don't see how this story adds much to that fact.

A mitigating factor in all of these really bad fates is that the human mind is probably not capable of "appreciating" this level of negative utility. One would either turn insane very quickly or not be able to remember more than a tiny fraction of the recent past.

In other words, posthuman torture is wasted on humans. And if you were turned into a posthuman being then the question is whether your current self could identify with it or would just view it as a negative utility monster.