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What will we exchange? Language? Memories? Streams of sensory stuff? Because language is, in the big picture, very very small. And if we were going to exchang

What will we exchange? Language? Memories? Streams of sensory stuff? Because language is, in the big picture, very very small. And if we were going to exchange memories etc, we might have to encode it.

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JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> language is, in the big picture, very very small You may enjoy Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" [1][2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
29athrowaway 2y ago
Better than talking and being overheard. Also, with telepathy you could have any voice of your choice, with any sound effects.
- TheRoque 2y ago
  Yeah, you could buy the Morgan Freeman voice pack for only 20$
mistermann 2y ago
Insightful question...unless something emergent came along with Neuralink for free, we have a hard problem of how to figure out how to use the new bandwidth. And both ends need to be able to encode and decode, and understand the result, with multiple levels of error handling. An exception: high resolution transmission of emotions could be revolutionary.
- swayvil 2y ago
  It would change the art world for sure. Why craft emotionally evocative images or sounds when you can deliver it directly?
  - radarsat1 2y ago
    Heh this reminds me of a joke from an old colleague, who would say, "forget working on a great demo! let's work on technology that makes you feel like you've just seen a great demo!"
    - swayvil 2y ago
      Hey, Total Recall. The movie. They did a thing like that.
drewcoo 2y ago
Odors. Smellepethy. The future William Castle saw for us. Um . . . sniffed for us.

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JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> language is, in the big picture, very very small You may enjoy Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" [1][2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang https://web.archive.org/web/20140222103103/http://subterrane... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_of_Feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

29athrowaway 2y ago

Better than talking and being overheard. Also, with telepathy you could have any voice of your choice, with any sound effects.

TheRoque 2y ago
Yeah, you could buy the Morgan Freeman voice pack for only 20$

mistermann 2y ago

Insightful question...unless something emergent came along with Neuralink for free, we have a hard problem of how to figure out how to use the new bandwidth. And both ends need to be able to encode and decode, and understand the result, with multiple levels of error handling. An exception: high resolution transmission of emotions could be revolutionary.

swayvil 2y ago
It would change the art world for sure. Why craft emotionally evocative images or sounds when you can deliver it directly?
- radarsat1 2y ago
  Heh this reminds me of a joke from an old colleague, who would say, "forget working on a great demo! let's work on technology that makes you feel like you've just seen a great demo!"
  - swayvil 2y ago
    Hey, Total Recall. The movie. They did a thing like that.

drewcoo 2y ago

Odors. Smellepethy. The future William Castle saw for us. Um . . . sniffed for us.