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Consider the idea that this is a vector into the idea of machines being possibly equally important, or considered even more important than living humans, based
by ThomasBombadil 11y ago
Consider the idea that this is a vector into the idea of machines being possibly equally important, or considered even more important than living humans, based on their capacity to accurately represent the continued presence of deceased humans.
That a machine is permitted to occupy and consume resources, that might otherwise be used by actual living people who are also trying to live meaningful lives. Which one wins?
- codecamper 11y agono worries. The human emulator uses just 1% of a 2050 EC2 mini compute instance.
- sbilstein 11y agoThe occasional stuttering is actually due to GC pauses.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoThat takes me back to Max Headroom!
- coldtea 11y agoThis thread takes me back to Reddit.
- Qwertious 11y agoThis is a scary thought: What language will people be written in? Imagine if you were stuck in an emulator written in Java. I'd be a little bit afraid of being in an emulator written in C++ that makes heavy use of Boost, though.
- ThomasBombadil 11y agoSo, if the distributed hardware infrastructure cluster supporting 10,000 EC2 mini compute instances is packed with 1,000,000 emulations of humans, how important are the physical data centers that encompass all their backups, master copies and live instances?
- loup-vaillant 11y agoAs important as a city hosting 1,000,000 people. No more, no less. The emulation of a human is a human.
- ThomasBombadil 11y agoI disagree. Less important, and no more important than a public library filled with books. It'd be a shame if it burned down, but the books are not the humans that wrote them. Those are long gone.