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Question What's it like to be an uploaded human with limited computing power?
In most science fiction where humans are simulated or uploaded onto computers, the humans are simulated with perfect fidelity. But this seems unlikely-- humans are very expensive to run. In Robin Hanson's Age of Em, humans that are too poor to run at full speed are just slowed down; probably the only...
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over 4 years ago
Question Language that cannot be divided into words?
For the purposes of this post, "word" is defined as a unit of language such that Has some meaning on its own, often relating to the real world. Complex utterances can be formed simply by transmitting multiple words. There are few enough words for a speaker of the language to know most of them (i.e....
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over 4 years ago