Our ancestors were designed with pleasure and pain to motivate them in a near subsistence world. … Our descendants will be similarly adapted to find joy and meaning in their near subsistence lives.
I guess it was a stretch to say that its not like everyone becoming happy.
I don’t think that uploads would require nearly as much matter to lead a happy life. Basically right now if I want to have a nice, warm, comfortable place to sleep and a stomach full of nutritious food, I need to rearrange lots of stuff to physically construct those.
Contrast that with an upload, who can simply have a computer stimulating his emulated neurons in such a way as to make them believe that they were.
I think it’s likely that uploads will need a simulated environment anyway, and I doubt if a pleasant one is harder to simulate than an unpleasant one.
For that reason, I personally think that an upload is more likely to be living in a state of sensory darkness and deprivation (which I would find pretty terrifying) from having no stimulation than in an unpleasant simulation for not being able to afford a nicer one.
Well, in Hanson’s words: Poor Folks Do Smile
I guess it was a stretch to say that its not like everyone becoming happy.
I don’t think that uploads would require nearly as much matter to lead a happy life. Basically right now if I want to have a nice, warm, comfortable place to sleep and a stomach full of nutritious food, I need to rearrange lots of stuff to physically construct those.
Contrast that with an upload, who can simply have a computer stimulating his emulated neurons in such a way as to make them believe that they were.
I think it’s likely that uploads will need a simulated environment anyway, and I doubt if a pleasant one is harder to simulate than an unpleasant one.
For that reason, I personally think that an upload is more likely to be living in a state of sensory darkness and deprivation (which I would find pretty terrifying) from having no stimulation than in an unpleasant simulation for not being able to afford a nicer one.