Yes, anything is expensive to sim in very high detail. But it isn’t at all clear that in typical settings the amount of detail you can get for say 0.1% of the cost of running a brain is usually unpleasant or disturbing.
You’re right, my intuitions had been swayed toward the “expensive verisimilitude” direction by the part in the beginning of Permutation City where the EMs keep committing suicide.
Yes, anything is expensive to sim in very high detail. But it isn’t at all clear that in typical settings the amount of detail you can get for say 0.1% of the cost of running a brain is usually unpleasant or disturbing.
You’re right, my intuitions had been swayed toward the “expensive verisimilitude” direction by the part in the beginning of Permutation City where the EMs keep committing suicide.