strategy tag
Digital minds.
Mind-uploading or digital people as strategic horizon
People on the record.
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Joscha Bach
Cognitive scientist; consciousness researcher
Argues consciousness is substrate-independent and that AI systems may become subjects in their own right.
Consciousness is not what the brain does. It's the model the brain has of what it does.
Robin Hanson
GMU economist; Age of Em author
Author of The Age of Em (2016), which sketches an economy dominated by emulated humans.
If we create whole-brain emulations before de novo AGI, the resulting em economy would doubles every month, with wages falling to subsistence.