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Trolley problem. I wish most Neuralink detractors would even attempt to understand the problem scope, trade-off, and everything that's at stake here in our life
by throwaway_4ever 5y ago
Trolley problem. I wish most Neuralink detractors would even attempt to understand the problem scope, trade-off, and everything that's at stake here in our lifetimes. "Elon Musk wants more $" is such a brain-dead take.
The reasoning behind Neuralink is explained here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html#part4 https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html#part4
TL;DR Some of the smartest people in the world consider AGI an existential threat and Neuralink is the leading hedge that instead of competing against AGI in futility, we augment ourselves to become the AGI instead.
- xondono 5y ago> TL;DR Some of the smartest people in the world consider AGI an existential threat and Neuralink is the leading hedge that instead of competing against AGI in futility, we augment ourselves to become the AGI instead. That's ridiculous
- fulafel 5y agoSupposing for the sake of argument that I accepted this premise, you would still have to demonstrate that it's not feasible to do this research humanely. We have been successfully implanting hardware in humans heads for a long time, at minimum we should be doing it equally carefully with these animals and reversibly.
- donkarma 5y agoi am of the position that AGI is impossible or if it is even possible won't be done for centuries to come