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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I’ve tried explaining this to none tech friends and they don’t believe me. Good passage makes me want read this.
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It’s not the more narratively engaging book (a lot of AI to AI communication) but the insights are pretty fascinating. Would definitely recommend it with the narrative caveat.
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Once we have AGI systems I think it would be diffecult to even consider purely biological humans to even be alive to a certain threshold when comparing their cognitive activity to the AGI. This is why is so important
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That took me 15mins to read and for the drone it was half a second... Man I'm slow 😂
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try Dragon's Egg, which posits life based on nuclear forces on a neutron star with vastly faster interaction times
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