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Comment author: RobinHanson 25 August 2012 02:22:14AM *  2 points [-]

Yes, anything is expensive to sim in very high detail. But it isn't at all clear that in typical settings the amount of detail you can get for say 0.1% of the cost of running a brain is usually unpleasant or disturbing.

Comment author: khafra 26 August 2012 09:50:12PM 0 points [-]

You're right, my intuitions had been swayed toward the "expensive verisimilitude" direction by the part in the beginning of Permutation City where the EMs keep committing suicide.