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Neuralink co-founder Flip Sabes doesn’t get it. It's not so much that I'm worried about me getting ahold of one of these things. I'm really just worried about

Neuralink co-founder Flip Sabes doesn’t get it. It's not so much that I'm worried about me getting ahold of one of these things. I'm really just worried about other people having them. Rotten people. Terrible people. The people out on the street, that if I had to share a room with them, I'd jump out a window. There's this idea that these things will make them better people. What a can of worms that concept is. But to Elon, the scariest thing the Human Colossus is doing is teaching the Computer Colossus to think. This is the brute-force hack to achieve the same outcome. One way or another, the equation is the same. Humans and machines collaborating, to produce an outcome. We can either level the playing field, so that each of us has implicit, private, immediate, instant interaction with our own implanted systems, or, we can defer to intermediary system administrators holding the keys to machine rooms around the world, portioning out bandwidth that permits each to siphon off some compute time from a massive cluster, be it for algorithmic day trading, personal medical diagnostics, nuclear fission/fusion detonation simulations, image processing for astronomical observations, winning a Go tournament, or whatever. But if an implant changes a person, from what do we derive our concept of self, and authenticity? Without that, how do we know we haven't died? How do we know that others are not animated corpses? What prevents us from becoming pzombies? What's the difference between a truly convincing Real Doll, and a person after this?

Quenz 9y ago
I don't think we can make that distinction, even now. We might die every time we go to sleep, similar to how you would if you were to be teleported; destroyed at one end and recreated at the other. I'm not worried in quite the same way as you are. I'm worried that once I've put on the wizard, I'll change, and I won't be who I once was. Maybe I'll lose my humanity. But maybe my humanity isn't doing me any good. There are a lot of things I said I would never become when I was younger, which I have now become. Maybe this will be the same thing on a larger scale. I might change, a lot, but that's all. I don't see the change as good or bad. Once I put on the wizard hat, I may miss what it was like without it, but I probably won't want to take it off again, similar to how I miss my childhood, but I'm not sure I actually want to regress back to it. Edit: Even if you're right, and this is a bad idea, and it will change us for the worse, it still seems to be our best option. Either we pray that AI doesn't recklessly take off without us, possibly destroying us in the process, or we try integrating with it, with the chance that our humanity will be lifted up with it. At least making it so that we have the option is probably a good idea.

Quenz 9y ago

I don't think we can make that distinction, even now. We might die every time we go to sleep, similar to how you would if you were to be teleported; destroyed at one end and recreated at the other. I'm not worried in quite the same way as you are. I'm worried that once I've put on the wizard, I'll change, and I won't be who I once was. Maybe I'll lose my humanity. But maybe my humanity isn't doing me any good. There are a lot of things I said I would never become when I was younger, which I have now become. Maybe this will be the same thing on a larger scale. I might change, a lot, but that's all. I don't see the change as good or bad. Once I put on the wizard hat, I may miss what it was like without it, but I probably won't want to take it off again, similar to how I miss my childhood, but I'm not sure I actually want to regress back to it. Edit: Even if you're right, and this is a bad idea, and it will change us for the worse, it still seems to be our best option. Either we pray that AI doesn't recklessly take off without us, possibly destroying us in the process, or we try integrating with it, with the chance that our humanity will be lifted up with it. At least making it so that we have the option is probably a good idea.