Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> So, right now, I think borganization is my very best chance to survive
> the death of my body. What do you think?
If nanotech shows up and nobody has a seed AI around, then we might want to
try hacking up some kind of neural-computer interface, or hack up an
interbrain connection by yoking random neurons together. The trouble is, I
don't see how an interbrain connection could be implemented on the necessary
scale - say, a hundred-million-neuron crossover - without nanotechnology or
something similar.
But if someone figures out how to yoke neurons together using optical fibers,
and automate the implantation process so it can be done on the necessary scale
- then I say go for it! Get a dozen suicide volunteers; try yoking together
one neuron in every minicolumn, or one minicolumn in every macrocolumn, or
select an entire macrocolumn and wire it up. Either you'll get telepathy, or
the volunteer will keel over and die, or nothing will happen, or the cognitive
processes will be damaged in ways that range from the subtle to the
horrific...
Obviously this is a measure of desperation. Realistically, I don't see anyone
getting a permit to use the necessary medical nanotechnology before military
hell breaks loose. I got my start in human IE, and neurohacking is a
bona-fide path to the Singularity, but currently I'm sticking with seed AI.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/home.html
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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