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If we could do this wouldn't we spin up minds-in-machines to do all sorts of cognitive tasks on demand and shut them off when the task is done (or they abandon
by icandoit 7y ago
If we could do this wouldn't we spin up minds-in-machines to do all sorts of cognitive tasks on demand and shut them off when the task is done (or they abandon their task) like a virtual machine.
Imagine making a copy of someone like Fabrice Bellard [1] and spinning up 100 of them to write your flappy bird clone for you and then shutting them off.
Would this be a terrible crime, or a paradise? This is an idea known as Hansons "ems" [2].
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
- https://ideas.ted.com/are-you-ready-for-the-impending-age-of-robots/ https://ideas.ted.com/are-you-ready-for-the-impending-age-of...
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- arethuza 7y agoThat sounds like the "Fast Folk" from Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution books: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/FallRevolution https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/FallRevolu...
- wonderwonder 7y agoThis is a pretty serious question and something that really should be answered. Is a digital conscious alive, and if so what rights does it have? Ian Banks' Culture novels look at this a few times. Appreciate the article links, will read them after work today.