Why wouldn’t the old timers try to all do the same as well? If we assume technology has advanced to the point where it’s possible to live to age 4000, then I imagine the problem of human cognition would also be solved.
e.g. the best possible 40 year old human, including their entire nervous system, could be modeled to the atomic level to allow those with access to such resources the ability to negate all the advantages of the young,. Any old timers afraid of being overtaken in developmental rate could fairly trivially self modify at that point to always stay ahead of the curve.
e.g. the best possible 40 year old human, including their entire nervous system, could be modeled to the atomic level to allow those with access to such resources the ability to negate all the advantages of the young,
If you’re setting up someone’s entire brain all the way down to the atomic level, that seems to mean every bit of knowledge in their brain is something you’re putting there deliberately. Which means there’s no advantage of the old, either—whatever they used to know (and be, for that matter) is completely wiped out by the process you describe. Nor is there any need for, say, a childhood during which lessons and skills are learned—you’ll be constructing fully formed adults whose brains embody those skills, from scratch.
… I guess you say “modeled” rather than “constructed”, but I guess that means you’re constructing computers that emulate a brain. Which probably has lots of economic and physical advantages over biological hardware, including perfect save-states and the ability to spin up perfect clones of yourself at a moment’s notice, and quite possibly faster execution. The bigger question would not be “how can the young compete with the old?”, but “how can the humans compete with the ems/synths?”.
The only internally consistent answer I’ve ever heard to that is that humans cannot compete, without evolving to something we would all likely agree would be non human. Which is why technological advancement beyond a certain point guarantees the extinction of circa 2022 humanity. Though the extinction of 2022 humanity is guaranteed in any possible future.
circa 6022 humans however may be able to outcompete circa 6022 machines though through what means I know not.
Why wouldn’t the old timers try to all do the same as well? If we assume technology has advanced to the point where it’s possible to live to age 4000, then I imagine the problem of human cognition would also be solved.
e.g. the best possible 40 year old human, including their entire nervous system, could be modeled to the atomic level to allow those with access to such resources the ability to negate all the advantages of the young,. Any old timers afraid of being overtaken in developmental rate could fairly trivially self modify at that point to always stay ahead of the curve.
If you’re setting up someone’s entire brain all the way down to the atomic level, that seems to mean every bit of knowledge in their brain is something you’re putting there deliberately. Which means there’s no advantage of the old, either—whatever they used to know (and be, for that matter) is completely wiped out by the process you describe. Nor is there any need for, say, a childhood during which lessons and skills are learned—you’ll be constructing fully formed adults whose brains embody those skills, from scratch.
… I guess you say “modeled” rather than “constructed”, but I guess that means you’re constructing computers that emulate a brain. Which probably has lots of economic and physical advantages over biological hardware, including perfect save-states and the ability to spin up perfect clones of yourself at a moment’s notice, and quite possibly faster execution. The bigger question would not be “how can the young compete with the old?”, but “how can the humans compete with the ems/synths?”.
The only internally consistent answer I’ve ever heard to that is that humans cannot compete, without evolving to something we would all likely agree would be non human. Which is why technological advancement beyond a certain point guarantees the extinction of circa 2022 humanity. Though the extinction of 2022 humanity is guaranteed in any possible future.
circa 6022 humans however may be able to outcompete circa 6022 machines though through what means I know not.