in the shell

Of course, knowing is always a problem. I think that there is a substantial chance of stumbling upon what awareness is if you develop advanced AI. I know there a various theories on how things can be conscious, but I am definitely not a supporter of the idea that entities suddenly become “possessed”...

I have been thinking a bit about a cyberbrain is and due to its use I think we all agree that it is more than just a MMI. I would be reasonable to assume that various sensory systems are replaced to avoid them from bottlenecking sensory input. Memory might be replaced because of the ways ghost hacks...

well, just assume it was an big eloquent post on the flaws of ethical egoism. :wink: Just the word ethics is sufficient to urge me to destroy :twisted:, but I would really like to hear you criticisms, maybe for once someone has something original to bring to the endless ethical wars. You know the b...

I think the point is that people in SAC tends to share more and more the same "nature" in the sense of same components (cyberbrains, etc) and same informations (news, DBs). While I see your point, what we are playing now us just a definition game. We could create multiple builds and see t...

According to WP, utilitarism is about "quantitative maximization of good consequences for a population". It doesn't have any fixed notion about what the consequence should be (although it is often chosen to be happiness in practice). And “quantitative maximization of good consequences for...

I don’t think there is any need to worry about the synchronization of information destroying individuality, because (as a major difference to tachikomas) we don’t share the exact same nature. Small genetic variations are probably sufficient to provide with the necessary diversity to ensure that our ...

There has been a slight delay for me to reply, because I have had some account trouble (hence the new one). The following was written some days ago: Seem like my previous post was not clear, therefore let me clarify. To quote myself: Anyway, remember that we are masters, we created words, and we sho...