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Slider comments on Irrational hardware vs. rational software - Less Wrong Discussion

-10 Post author: tygorton 22 May 2012 06:52AM

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Comment author: Slider 22 May 2012 07:54:33AM 0 points [-]

Humans are physical beings. Even if humans were transferred into digital beings there would still remain the equivalent of passing on the bare minimum of electricity in order to more perfectly satisfy some cognitive ritual. Totally disregarding your infrastructure would only be an option to an agent with no physical parts. But those agents can't do actions. And that includes attempts to try to satisfy any rituals.