Meditators seek spirituality via cutting influence of brain's default net. Yet many fear ems losing moral value via losing human features, & cutting default net is plausible path. So are ems w/ less default net spiritual ideals, or empty of moral value? https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/02/how-human-are-meditators.html …
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If it’s all complex & some cuts of default net good & others bad, I don’t see how u can confidently say em cuts will be bad. Only a generic fear that cuts might be bad. But all change MIGHT be bad.
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I think I am much more confident about the moral value of specific human-comprehensible actions than changes to brain networks. When you describe the changes you think ems will have, I judge them more negatively than some vague alteration of default network.
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You said you feared lost moral value from ems "neurologically incapable of having their minds drift off while on the job". As default net manages such mind wandering, that sounds pretty close to reducing default net influence.
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Are you saying there's no relation between mind drifting at work you fear ems losing and mind wandering in meditation that spiritualists dislike, so that your fear of loss of the former is not in conflict with spiritualists' celebration of losing the later?
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Thanks for explaining; didn't understand your objection before. Thoughts turned out too long for Twitter, so seehttps://pastebin.com/NiSbT8g8
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In foreseeable near term, we only be talking about shrinking some parts & using them less, not complete elimination. More like a skilled meditator that one incapable of mind wandering. And most work has much complexity, often even more than in leisure. Longer run v. hard to see.
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Most any trend looks unsavory when projected to a logical extreme. But forecasting abilities usually fade into fog long before extremes would be reached. In Age of Em I try to limit forecasts to before the fog.
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Seems like economic forces support making the trend as extreme as possible. And having access to human minds as code is such a major discontinuity that hard to see why we should expect changes to be gradual. See section at http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/28/book-review-age-of-em/ … starting "But we can go further"
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