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The human mind needs help in the form augmentation of its capabilities and capacity, but I am not convinced invasive implants are the way for two reasons: 1) yo
by nis0s 2y ago
The human mind needs help in the form augmentation of its capabilities and capacity, but I am not convinced invasive implants are the way for two reasons: 1) you’ll need brain surgery every time you decide to change hardware for any reason, which will suck if you’re immunocompromised for any reason, which can also happen naturally as you age; 2) invasive hardware will be hard to remove at will.
I think there are different ways to augment human cognition without implants, and these less invasive methods need to be considered first. One simple and tractable method which may be easy to implement, but hard to perfect, is to create a mechanism for offloading tasks as a learned “thought process” to any number of autonomous agents called on demand. If the system relies on vocalization, then it’s not different from voice assistants, whereas if it relies on multi-step prompting, then it’s not reducing the cognitive load of the person using it. There are various nuances even for this relatively simple concept, but I think it’s one of the more doable research quests.
- pseudocomposer 2y agoSubtly designed subvocal sensors, paired with an earpiece providing LLM output, could potentially be pretty powerful as a wearable. Not as invasive as glasses-type implementations - no camera or screen needed at all, really. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
- nis0s 2y agoMaybe, but a wireless SVR would offer more flexibility and normal use. But a “thought process” could also be composed from a language of neurophysiology, like blood flow and hand/foot movements.
- nis0s 2y agoThe average human mind has a capacity of holding at best 7 facts together in working memory before reaching cognitive load limits. What’s amazing is that we’ve achieved as much as we have besides current limitations.
- al_hag 2y agoOr the average human mind is fully equipped as is — seems like that has been proven over the millennia