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I forgot to mention True Names by Doctrow and Rosenbaum. One of the best on this subject IMO.
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. The chapters aren't in chronological order; the bootstrapping and power leveling happen in chapters two and four.
I had read most of this many years ago...not sure why I didn't finish then but glad I did this time. Thanks for the link.
Also I think the answer is to contine to evolve and constantly push against ones limits rather than outsourcing the work andliving a life Iif leisure as the majority did after the change.
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Stross has a good Singularity novel, Accelerando.
Vinge has an interesting novel - Marooned in Realtime - that follows a group of humans who missed the Singularity and have been "Left Behind" so to speak. Not Sing Fic, but a neat concept.
Come to think of it, there's a lot of post-Singularity fiction, but very little actual "in the Singularity itself" fiction that comes to mind.
OH! Chiang's short "Understand" is an awesome watching-the-singularity-happen story, and is available here: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm (Almost everything Chiang's ever written is brilliant, FWIW)
I loved accelerando...just read the Chiang story, great but was disapointed by the outcome. I wont discuss why to avoid spoilers
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The Golden Age is a great post-singularity novel. The other two parts of the trilogy are pretty good as well.
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Seconded. Granted, my sample size is pretty minuscule, but still.
And as an extra reason why LW folks might be interested in Rajaniemi's books, the second book of the series, The Fractal Prince, mentions something called "extrapolated volition" being at the heart of one of the cultures in the novels' setting.
That was my first thought as well.
However, in the least convenient world all the other people are being run by an AI, who through reading your mind can ensure you don't notice the difference. The AI, if it matters, enjoys roleplaying. There are no people other than you in your shard.
Is there really a way of simulating people with whom you interact extensively such that they wouldn't exist in much the same way that you would? In otherwords are p-zombie's possible, or more to the point are they a practical means of simulating a human in sufficient detail to fool a human level intellect.
They do. What else would we use the word 'reality' to mean? I'm not seeing any alternative here (infinite recursion on the concept of 'reality' doesn't count as a solution.)
Just what one experiences, with the external world that we agree upon going by consensus reality. Is that what you were asking.
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I'd like to point out that caffeine is overrated. Tolerance develops pretty quickly and then it does nothing except slightly increase your background anxiety levels.
I've been a more than a year without caffeine and glad to be rid of it. Very potent drug which is abused almost ubiquitously.