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jaekwon comments on The impact of whole brain emulation - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: jkaufman 14 May 2013 07:59PM

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Comment author: jaekwon 22 May 2013 10:06:39AM 0 points [-]

Disclaimer: rambling ahead.

One thing that struck me while reading your discussion post is that, even with simulated AI that can be saved, copied, and replayed, it isn't obvious nor given that we can merge these clone instances into a single 'averaged' instance.

We could, if we could arbitrarily shrink an instance to only require 1/Nth the resources (or time). The shrunken instance would be less perfect, but there is power in the ability to run numerous nested (sets in sets, like a tree) instances simultaneously.