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There are dozens of ethical concerns involved with created an artificial human conscious. A completely selfish concern of mine is this: Once the hard work of emulating a human brain is done, what's to stop the emulation from running at 10 or 100 (or many, many more) times as fast? If this is a human brain, replete with arrogance, in what way wouldn't it be right to feel superior to me? If you had the option of hiring normal speed brains vs ultra high speed brains, which would you hire? How long would it take ultra high speed brains to completely take over?

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If you were running at 100x clock speed, how much interest would you have in working for someone running in real-time? You'd receive project requirements, comment on them and ask clarifying questions, and send them off... and receive a response in four months, subjective time.

Then again, I suppose that was the state of the world until sometime in the 1800's, and people managed to get things done.

I guess the goal would be to choose work where you don't rely on people at slower clock speeds (say working on deep algorithm stuff - you can get low latency connection to a library and research stuff 100x faster). Or you could change your clock speed / put your consciousness on hold until slower-time triggers mean you can do something productive, and then ramp up so that your end of things happens very quickly.

No matter how much you speed up your dog’s brain, you’re not going to get the equivalent of a human intellect.

http://humanityplus.org/learn/transhumanist-faq/#answer_26

We already do things 10x to 100x as fast, but in a parallel way. Look at reddit's "new" page after a popular post reaches the top. You'll have dozens of similar submissions riffing on the popular one within an hour (breadth of 100 people submitting in parallel, not depth of one person submitting serially).

See http://hanson.gmu.edu/uploads.html for a more detailed examination.

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