The issue with running people at different speeds as a solution is that the eudemonic rate for people to increase their intelligence will vary, however this creates an incentive for people to self modify in a sort of race to the bottom. It’s also problematic because people are liable to care quite a lot how fast they’re running, so this forces society to splinter in terms of who can interact with each other.
Also at a fundamental level it seems like what you’re reaching for is still going to end up being a Federation style caste system no matter what: What I mean by that is that there will always be some people who are the most competent because of a combination of where they started and how fast they were allowed to improve themselves. Which means that the people who are less competent than them will know that they are always going to be in their shadow, which seems guaranteed to breed resentment.
In contrast you could let everyone enhance themselves to the same ever increasing baseline standard. However this would essentially make it impossible to ever achieve anything or stand out at all, except through luck or by having already been famous pre-singularity.
I don’t think there’s a good solution here that doesn’t involve creating a huge number of new minds that lack the same zero sum desire for status that most (but not all) humans have. That way all the original humans can be as special as they want (unless they only want to compare themselves to other original humans) and most people don’t desire status enough to feel like they’re missing out on anything. With these new people created to be maximally fulfilled without needing to feel they’re uniquely special or accomplished in some way.
The issue with running people at different speeds as a solution is that the eudemonic rate for people to increase their intelligence will vary, however this creates an incentive for people to self modify in a sort of race to the bottom. It’s also problematic because people are liable to care quite a lot how fast they’re running, so this forces society to splinter in terms of who can interact with each other.
Also at a fundamental level it seems like what you’re reaching for is still going to end up being a Federation style caste system no matter what: What I mean by that is that there will always be some people who are the most competent because of a combination of where they started and how fast they were allowed to improve themselves. Which means that the people who are less competent than them will know that they are always going to be in their shadow, which seems guaranteed to breed resentment.
In contrast you could let everyone enhance themselves to the same ever increasing baseline standard. However this would essentially make it impossible to ever achieve anything or stand out at all, except through luck or by having already been famous pre-singularity.
I don’t think there’s a good solution here that doesn’t involve creating a huge number of new minds that lack the same zero sum desire for status that most (but not all) humans have. That way all the original humans can be as special as they want (unless they only want to compare themselves to other original humans) and most people don’t desire status enough to feel like they’re missing out on anything. With these new people created to be maximally fulfilled without needing to feel they’re uniquely special or accomplished in some way.