Blueberry comments on Fast Minds and Slow Computers - Less Wrong
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Having your subjective time sped up by a factor of 10^6 would probably be pretty terrible if not accompanied by a number of significant changes. It has required secondary powers. Actually interfacing with other people, for instance, would be so slow as to potentially drive you insane. In fact, there aren't many things you could interface with at a pace that would not be maddeningly slow, so pursuits such as mastering cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, rationality, philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, the history of religions, and marketing might be functionally impossible unless you could generate the knowledge within yourself.
In this case, I think it's not fair to anthropomorphize, because anything with such an accelerated frame of reference would be living a fundamentally different existence to any sort of being alive today. The only thing I can predict with significant confidence that I would do in such a situation is go mad.
Just noticed that page quotes MoR!