They touch on this in the show. Some people upload their consciousness and many companies will hire them over irl people because they can complete the work in a fraction of the time, then they can spend their free time doing whatever they want in digital space. They can overclock/underclock themselves at will, so they can complete hours worth of work in a few minutes, and many prefer to be overclocked because they feel that operating at “real-time” speed feels too slow.
This plays into tensions rising between the UIs (uploaded intelligences) and the people still living in the material world.
There’s a black mirror episode that has something similar to this and I found it to be the most existentially eerie. It’s part of „White Christmas“. In a sense you could make a similar argument about the planned trajectory about Ai, not the image and text generation that’s currently ai tagged, but the long trajectory of attempting to make an artificial learning program in the aspirational direction of consciousness.
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Don’t give them ideas
This has been flaires as speculation. This is not speculation, it is absolute fact.
Now this is a good shower thought.
Spoilers ahead for the show Pantheon.
They touch on this in the show. Some people upload their consciousness and many companies will hire them over irl people because they can complete the work in a fraction of the time, then they can spend their free time doing whatever they want in digital space. They can overclock/underclock themselves at will, so they can complete hours worth of work in a few minutes, and many prefer to be overclocked because they feel that operating at “real-time” speed feels too slow.
This plays into tensions rising between the UIs (uploaded intelligences) and the people still living in the material world.
Really good short story here about the concept: MMAcevedo
This idea was used for an episode of Black Mirror, so I think you’re onto something.
the thing about uploading your consciousness to a computer is … you presumably still have your original copy of consciousness in your body. like,
“congrats, you made a clone, over there, on the Internet. now watch it do things. or not. you still have to feed yourself, sorry.”
Plot twist- AI is just enslaved human consciousness.
There’s a black mirror episode that has something similar to this and I found it to be the most existentially eerie. It’s part of „White Christmas“. In a sense you could make a similar argument about the planned trajectory about Ai, not the image and text generation that’s currently ai tagged, but the long trajectory of attempting to make an artificial learning program in the aspirational direction of consciousness.
Dark mirror is the best example of this
Honestly, if I could upload duplicates of myself to the internet, one of my duplicates could write all the stories I don’t have time to write.