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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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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That is the section of your post I quoted above & in my blog post. It is complex to figure out which way econ demand pushes, and also to estimate details of complex costs of change. This change may be fast, because all change will be fast.
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