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I feel that I would be waiting in the queue to buy a GPU to expand my own brain someday.
by ttflee 8y ago
I feel that I would be waiting in the queue to buy a GPU to expand my own brain someday.
- agumonkey 8y agoI'm super not sold on this. I've learned so much without any help, even when crippled by illness. I believe the superhuman thing is just a marketing trick to pursue the tech growth.
- 0xffff2 8y agoComputers are clearly different and complementary to our own brains. We most definitely don't know how to replace our brains with better hardware, but having some kind of implant that would allow me to maintain a perfect calendar in my head instead of on my phone or computer would be really helpful, as would being able to do complex arithmetic a the speed of thought instead of the speed of typing equations into a calculator/Mathmatica/etc. It's not about replacing anything we already have with something better, it's adding new tightly integrated features.
- jobigoud 8y ago> I've learned so much without any help "so much" by what standards? Our reference for knowledge acquisition is biased to what we perceive as our limits. For example we've collectively spent several millennia improving our game of Go theory and knowledge, and then a machine trained for a few days discovered new ideas we hadn't considered.
- agumonkey 8y agoOf course it's biased, and why do I care about the absolute scale of things ? Would you buy a McLaren F1 to go grocery shopping ? this is how the mind expanding thing feels to me. Just clean and use your mercedes sedan.
- p1esk 8y agoMind expansion is for those who want to go beyond "grocery shopping".