Is it to be uploads or AI? If the former, capturing brain states that will run in a satisfactory fashion might be very hard (or impossible). If the latter, AI might be very hard; evidence so far suggests it is. Designing an AI meaningfulyl cleverer than yourself might be very hard or impossible, in a way that is not tractable to thinking about it for longer.
Climate change and the energy crisis may well put human society in a state where - at the very least - computers stop getting faster.
"Your superior intelligence is no match for our puny weapons"; when it gets started, the real world might recognise what's going on and take extremely drastic steps.
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Date: 2012-02-21 04:43 pm (UTC)Is it to be uploads or AI? If the former, capturing brain states that will run in a satisfactory fashion might be very hard (or impossible). If the latter, AI might be very hard; evidence so far suggests it is. Designing an AI meaningfulyl cleverer than yourself might be very hard or impossible, in a way that is not tractable to thinking about it for longer.
Climate change and the energy crisis may well put human society in a state where - at the very least - computers stop getting faster.
"Your superior intelligence is no match for our puny weapons"; when it gets started, the real world might recognise what's going on and take extremely drastic steps.