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Questions for Quantum this time! Sorry for the slight delay!



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And that answers another question too: Quantum does indeed run on an accelerated chronometric.

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Not really?

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Experiencing the file of a book might only take him a few seconds, but unless his mind's basic clock speed is much faster than ours, parsing and absorbing the thoughts imparted by said book should keep him occupied for a fair while. Downloading isn't the same as reading.

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Or he can also think in parallel, something organic minds are incapable of. I mean, he does think faster, but nowhere near anything extreme like "subjective day in a second"

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Mmm, I still don't think you could properly absorb a book by breaking it down into sub-minute thought tasks and running them all at once. I make no claim to understanding the informational and psychological theory involved, but my gut feeling is that you would hit "irreducible linearity" long before that.

Either way, though, it makes me giggle a bit to imagine ACs basically writing and reading the literary equivalent of a Black MIDI.

Also, I really ought to read some Lem works sometime. I gather he was a pretty major influence on Orion's Arm, which I already read and enjoy.






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The author is against any kind of application of AI to his artwork.

TRIVIA
Artificial Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence are not the same thing.
AIs, much like in real life, are not conscious or sapient and are more like really advanced scripts.
ACs - like Quantum - on the other hand, are properly sapient persons, but their functioning relies on a specific hardware setup as much as on code, so they cannot upload themselves to other computers.

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