Interesting resonance between this book's idea of throttling the tick speed at which the simulation of a person is run, and the Maths in Anathem, where monks live deliberately without outside contact. In both cases there is time shear to think about. Used as a proxy for general concerns about the speed at which information hits us, and whether it is in sync with what is best for us. I feel like "tick speed" as shown in the book has not been as much of a concern in real LLM systems. Obviously latency is a big deal, but I think a big part of it is that the lack of autonomy they've had - now with the agents with longer timelines it's easier to imagine. But I guess the book - focused on uploading yourself as life extension - is also just focused on a different, less task-oriented structure. For life extension continued consciousness is the goal, even if spread out over a long, long timeline.