FAWS comments on Fast Minds and Slow Computers - Less Wrong
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A supercomputer that you proposed to create by modeling the human brain. This is a really bad way to create something that thinks that fast, if you don't want it to go insane. Especially if it doesn't exist in a form that has the capacity to move.
Anything that could cope with that sort of accelerated frame of reference without interacting with similarly accelerated entities would not be reasonable to anthropomorphize, and anything with human like thought processes without similarly accelerated entities to interact with would probably not retain them for long.
It would be a useful ability, but I sure as hell wouldn't be able to spend most of my life that way, and I'm dramatically more reclusive than most people I know. Even monks don't go for months or years without hearing other people speak, the only people who do that are generally considered to be crazy.
Most of your life in subjective or physical time?
Either. I might be able to spend a comparable proportion of my subjective time in an accelerated frame of reference, but not a significant majority.