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“Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future” by Tim Urban convinced me that neural laces and their development is feasible, probable and imminently worthwhile. It
by ipnon 4y ago
“Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future” by Tim Urban convinced me that neural laces and their development is feasible, probable and imminently worthwhile. It made it clear that visionaries like Musk seem like total lunatics unless you break problems down into their absolute atomic principles. His drawings are also really funny. He blows the brain up to the size of Madison Square Garden and shows that at this scale each cubic meter has 40,000 neurons in it, a complex system in itself that becomes near incomprehensible once you factor in the rest of the blown up cortex that would take half an hour to walk around. You get a sense for the immense difficulty and yet deterministic physics of the problem.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
- dmak 4y agoWow thats cool!
- ramraj07 4y agoMusk is the type of person you should be prepared to simultaneously deride but also learn from. The jackassery he’s up to now, and the abuse he inflicts on his workers everywhere, coexist with the fact that he single handedly transformed the space industry and accelerated EV adoption and made inroads in BCI. There are also then these self contradictory Elon hit pieces where they’ll simultaneously say he’s not responsible for the success of any of these companies, but also smart enough to invent hyper loop and boring company because he has an agenda to derail californias public transport infrastructure. Pick a side people!
- yreg 4y agoAlso his series on AGI: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol... And perhaps a more controversial, take-it-with-a-grain-of-sand take on cryonics: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html