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Comment author: KatjaGrace 30 September 2014 12:26:25PM 2 points [-]

I agree various optimizations like these will be made, at least in the absence of anything else radical getting in the way of this trajectory. Though I tend to think improved memories and different modes of communication and the like would not make humans all that inhuman in the scheme of things. These don't seem much more extreme than the addition of the pencil, the telephone and coffee to our set of tools.

I like your concrete list.

Comment author: SteveG 30 September 2014 04:17:43PM 3 points [-]

So, I am just going to make one more pass at this-what we have is:

A simulated brain which does not die and has substantially engineered emotions and a different rewards system.

Perhaps operating at ten or a hundred times the speed

Which does not have to be paid in money

With a new kind of connection to other brains

A new kind of connection to machinery

Which does not see with eyes or hear with ears

Which can include a hundred versions of itself, each of which was trained in a different language or job specialty

With a vast ability to calculate and remember

Has neither hunger, thirst nor sexuality

Which feels pain or pleasure largely on command

No hormones, no sleep, no heartbeat

This system seems quite different from you, me, or a social unit of a number of people which has access to computers. For that matter this whole vision is just an interim phase on the way to something that strings neurologically-inspired elements and algorithms together in entirely novel ways, or abandons neurological inspiration entirely.

An algorithmic economy of many human-like whole brain emulations is not a consistent future vision. We should be thinking about various kinds of neuromorphic systems with diverse modes of cognitive function that replaces capitalism as we know it with something at least considerably different.