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Originally Posted by Daigoro
Hmmmm... Well, maybe machine AI doesn't work, which is why the braintapes of actual humans have to be installed in meat bodies at the destination. If machine AI worked, the humans wouldn't be needed. There is the problem then of explaining why we can faithfully record a human brainstate but can't emulate it on a machine, or use the same tech to make an AI.
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Rather than braintapes being "installed in meat bodies at the destination," how about "brains are grown under guidance from the braintape data, which is then uploaded into them." That means you can only upload a braintape into a purpose-grown brain. That avoids the ability to install a new braintape on an existing person, which comes with some
large cans of cyber-worms.
Given that, the inability to run a brainstate under emulation on a computer doesn't have to be a hard inability. It's just that the necessary computing power to do it at a useful speed is huge and expensive, and Moore's law stopped in the 2020s (there are grounds for this being plausible).
Being able to run a human mind at 0.1 to 1% of its usual speed isn't very useful - although it was handy for STL probes.