SomeNeuroGuy

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by SomeNeuroGuy 9y ago
It seems likely you'd have to process as you go, and not store it all. Or have one hell of a datacenter/buffer like the LHC does, holding it until it can be crunched down to a "simple" network instead of voxel data.
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by SomeNeuroGuy 9y ago
He says don't hope for anything, because you can't control that. Just decide you're happy as-is, because all you can control is your own mind. A) Not hoping for anything is a great way to stay in shit situations, and B) Yeah
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by SomeNeuroGuy 9y ago
Epictetus was friggin insane though. Taking life advice from him is pretty awful. I doubt his death advice is any better.
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by SomeNeuroGuy 9y ago
Eh, you can guess for a lot of it, and you at least have a map of where all the inputs actually GO. If it synapses in the olfactory bulb, probably don't hook up your simulated eyeball and all that. Brain plasticity can cover some wirin
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by SomeNeuroGuy 9y ago
I fundamentally don't understand those comments. Like, I get that these guys might be - maybe even probably are! - snake oil salesmen, but what about brain digitization is actually impossible? There are certainly a fixed number of neur
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by SomeNeuroGuy 9y ago
You can electroshock a brain, completely scramble the "active patterns" and the person will... well, reboot, for lack of a better term. If you could get the weights without activity, I see no reason you couldn't just initiali
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by SomeNeuroGuy 9y ago
The number of connections is high, but the bandwidth is surprisingly low. Modern edge routers could do it a couple times over.