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In Greg Egan's book about this, basically the digital intelligence is invisible; the metaverse runs on a cubic centimeter of ultradense compute matter in orbit
by dustingetz 5y ago
In Greg Egan's book about this, basically the digital intelligence is invisible; the metaverse runs on a cubic centimeter of ultradense compute matter in orbit around whatever; any physical comms are tightbeam lasers that don't leak energy; the metaverse is in fact so far decoupled from classical reality that meta-time decouples from physical time. Sure you could inhabit a robot body, slow down to match physical time and interact with earthers but why would you bother.
- treeman79 5y agoThat level of density of matter/energy and information is probably in black hole range. Of course there are theories that we live in a black hole formed from a 4d hyper-dimensional star.
- lowbloodsugar 5y agoat the risk of turning this into a game of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunately,_Unfortunately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunately,_Unfortunately, any such digital intelligence is going to be concerned about events in the real that could result in them being unplugged / blown-up etc. and would thus be compelled to sterilize it just in case.