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Digital People FAQ

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This is a companion piece to Digital People Would Be An Even Bigger Deal, which is the third in a series of posts about the possibility that we are in the most important century for humanity. This piece discusses basic questions about "digital people," e.g., extremely detailed, realistic computer simulations of specific people. This is a hypothetical (but, I believe, realistic) technology that could be key for a transition to a stable, galaxy-wide civilization. (The other piece describes the consequences of such a technology; this piece focuses on basic questions about how it might work.) It will be important to have this picture, because I'm going to argue that AI advances this century could quickly lead to digital people or similarly significant technology. The transformative potential of something like digital people, combined with how quickly AI could lead to it, form the case that we could be in the most important century. This table (also in the other piece) serves as a summary o

--> Audio also available by searching Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts, etc. for "Cold Takes Audio" This is a companion piece to Digital People Would Be An Even Bigger Deal , which is the third in a series of posts about the possibility that we are in the most important century for humanity . This piece discusses basic questions about "digital people," e.g., extremely detailed, realistic computer simulations of specific people. This is a hypothetical (but, I believe, realistic) technology that could be key for a transition to a stable, galaxy-wide civilization . (The other piece describes th

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