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Elon Musk's Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster I/O

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Re: Elon Musk's Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster I/O

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Post by pontifier »

I think he's hit the nail on the head about symbiosis with AI. If we can start to augment our own intelligence then we can, like he said, "go along for the ride".

I feel like we've read a lot of the same Sci-Fi books... here are some of my favorites that involve augmented intelligence and the possible AI struggles in the future:

True names, the Peace War books, as well as the short story "Bookworm, Run!" by Vernor Vinge.

Old man's war by John Scalzi.

The Heechee Saga by Frederick Pohl.

The Fall Revolution series by Ken MacLeod.

The Virga series by Karl Schroeder.

Musk is playing an active role in the Sci-Non-Fi that we'll all be a part of if we live long enough...

Re: Elon Musk's Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster I/O

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Post by pontifier »

pontifier wrote: post #11

I think he's hit the nail on the head about symbiosis with AI. If we can start to augment our own intelligence then we can, like he said, "go along for the ride". I feel like we've read a lot of the same Sci-Fi books... here are some of my favorites that involve augmented intelligence and the possible AI struggles in the future: True names, the Peace War books, as well as the short story "Bookworm, Run!" by Vernor Vi…

Watching the video, near the end, I started thinking about wireheads in the Known Space books by Larry Niven... Sign me up!

Re: Elon Musk's Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster I/O

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Post by chillacy »

devoply wrote: post #2

In the 90s they did something similar, wiring up some poor soul who did not have any other options with a bunch of wires to make him walk by wiring impulses from the brain to the legs eventually to abandon him with all the wires still plugged up into him when the funding was cancelled. Please don't be that guy. This is very far fetched and totally science fiction and much like most of Musk's other schemes, or maybe l…

The article seems to imply that it’s not very far along, they only said it was tried on rats and collected data at 10x the bandwidth of existing methods. Then said they announced to hire.

Tech like this is bound to happen at some point in the next... 20, 100, 200 years? Someone’s gotta be first in line as it happens.

Re: Elon Musk's Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster I/O

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Post by mlindner »

jameslevy wrote: post #7
mandeepj wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Flamethrower innovator It was a small project or just sidekick. It's done >Boring Co Seems like no struggles there. Tech is established >Tesla They scaled it and are out of production hell > SpaceX Things are going smooth there. They have nailed landings and launches. No immediate fires to address Looks like Elon have some capacity to focus on other endeavors.

The only fires that SpaceX needs to address are the actual ones, like at the launchpad explosion a couple months back.

You mean a couple years ago? There hasn't been a launchpad explosion since 2016. That was resolved a long time ago.

Re: Elon Musk's Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster I/O

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Post by FrojoS »

mlindner wrote: post #14
jameslevy wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only fires that SpaceX needs to address are the actual ones, like at the launchpad explosion a couple months back.

You mean a couple years ago? There hasn't been a launchpad explosion since 2016. That was resolved a long time ago.

Crew Dragon (still uncrewed) exploded on April 20 this year during a test after its return from ISS. https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-explosion-nasa-memo... It sounds like the program was only set back for a few months though.
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