"For example, ems, or whole brain emulations, are my best guess for the next big transition on the order of the farming and industry transitions. Farmer-style stoicism, self-sacrifice, and self-control, detached as needed from farmer specifics like love of land or sexual monogamy, might well be more effective at creating acceptance of em-efficient lifestyles. Religious ems might, for example, better accept being deleted when new more efficient versions of themselves are introduced. “Onward Christian robots” might be the new sensibility. And em’s low incomes might help farmer-style fear-based norm-enforcement to gain traction." Robin Hansen, OvercomingBias website.The technoids start as ems. The ems get better on a learning curve that erupt as emergent effects. In training mode, second and third generation ems can down-load sufficient experience and subjective nuance to fool your friends for hours at a time in real time Turing tests with multiple, simultaneous interactions.
"This should make us feel more happy, relaxed, and natural. In the extreme, we might even end up (for a time) as foragers in bands wandering virtual robot-supported forests, absent predators, famines, or pandemics."
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