[MURG] Speed ups

[Keith Wiley]

Not entirely.  We also include the past portion of an email conversation
so we can relate back to it when we get an eventual response.  We can't
hold all these simultaneous longterm conversations with different people
in our heads, all the while also living out the rest of our daily lives.
We need to refresh ourselves with each particular conversation each time
we get a response and need to dwell on it for a few moments.  My point
isn't for or against anything, only that the analogy is incomplete.  The
two forms of communication in debate here are fairly different in some
respects.

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Randal A. Koene wrote:

> 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
>
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