Re: extropians-digest V7 #22

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 12:17:05 MST


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Wayne Hayes wrote:

> I doubt money will be a problem. If you can think a million times
> faster than the average human, then you hire yourself out as a

If you can think a million times faster than the average human, the
average human is dead meat. Your day is worth 3 kYears of slowtime. Where
do you think our culture will be 3 kYears downstream? Sorry, tomorrow, I
mean?

> consultant for --- virtually anything that requires thought. Then you
> spend a month (or a year) of subjective time pondering the question
> posed to you, and then get back to your client with an answer before
> they've had time to finish their coffee.

You do not interact meaningfully with a statue-littered landscape. By
means other than bulldozering it, I mean.

Whence the assumption of brains in a vat, inert monoliths of computronium?
They're anything but that.



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