[MURG] Speed ups

[Randal A. Koene]

Hi All,

I read Eugene's suggested speed ups for uploads with some surprise. As I
recall, Eugene, you believe that we need to emulate at a very low level to
achieve whole brain emulation. Howcome you simultaneously propose such
gigantic speed ups? Those speed ups seem more feasible in an abstract
emulation, the kind that those on the other end of the level-of-detail
spectrum at MURG propose.

Anyway, I'm not too worried about fast-slow communication. If I'm a
super-fast upload and I'm trying to talk face-to-face with a regular human
being, then if my thought processes are so much faster the conversation
will simply appear as a form of written communication does now. Think
about it, we can think of a reply to an email (or paper letter) quite
rapidly, and even write and send it pretty quickly. Then we have to wait
an unspecified amount of time for a reply. And yet, we are well able to
communicate that way.

Cheers,
       Randal