Joe Jenkins writes:
>> People's strong need for
>> the familiar physical sensations and comforts would have to
>> satisfied in a virtual reality that had little direct connection to
>> ordinary physical reality.
>
>I hope this isn't too rude, asking you to support something you wrote
>way back in ancient 1992 in a post to sci.nanotech.
>
>1. What physical process in nostalgia nature cannot be emulated in a
>Turing equivalent machine such that Artificial Reality (AR) couldn't
>emulate Real Reality (RR) with 365 times speedup, thus providing a
>satisfactory "connection to ordinary physical reality" for uploaders?
>This was one of the key stated motivations for Tinkerbelizing in the
>first place.
I can't tell you what I was thinking then, but now I wouldn't say that was the main reason to "tinkerbelize." I mentioned in the next sentence that there will be a lot of physical work to supervise.
I do think that it is easy to underestimate the cost of simulating a vivid shared natural-appearing reality, and that people will be uncomfortable with the very fact that it isn't real.
Robin Hanson
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