Welcome to 1978?
Ps didn't read
- The Matrix is pushing 17 years now.. Seems like history is up for a rematch.
I would love the idea of being able to upgrade myself. Are you kidding? I would do it. I wouldn't mind a hard drive installation with lots of valuable knowledge on it, you know, the kind that takes people decades of dedicated study to acquire. I could have it all after a 2 hour surgery/installation, and one day, people will. Anyone can know or do anything so long as the knowledge exists somewhere.
Imagine in 50 years really smart people, like theoretical physicists and mathematicians in particular, would instantly become special ed students in comparison to an average person who had a couple implants.
- It would be the most awsome thing -ever-. It do raise alot ALOT of questions though. Like you know, if it is on the internet, wikipedia even then it must be true. Who will define the rethorics, angle of propaganda in all that material (I can see deep learning transforming texts into formarts easily adopted by the biological counterpart). How woudl critical thought be applied to autonomous learning? - anyway, still want one
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The first issue I see with that is the separation of knowledge and wisdom - which I like to call "the application of knowledge". The second, related issue would be memory - muscle memory and reflex for external skills (surgery, etc.) and cognitive memory and reflex for utilizing all those data you have access to.
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Very interesting indeed.
I see we share some of the same thoughts on the subject. Very interesting indeed.
Great, lets remove natural selection of intelligence based mental processes. When everyone all of a sudden has Einstein beating IQ, who will want to do our taxes? Cook our food? Change our tires?
Oh yeah.. robots can do all of that.
Natural selection as a factor of genetic human progression is debateable
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/09-they-dont-make-homo-sapiens-like-they-used-to
The evolution of the human species lies, IMO, entirely in our technological prowess, from engineering retro viruses that will slice and dice our own running code(crispr-cas9, think to the future of this tech, get an aveage of 10.000 of your own cells and replace all of your aging dna throughout your body with 'young ones') to improved methods of communication and data storage. It is a good thing we 'plateaued' at a stage where we were able to pull technology - as we know it - off, or we woulda been at a dead end.
I'd just be interested to see how many people register for the Public Beta
I would be concerned that version 1.0 was a showstopper for getting 2.0 .. you know, early adopters getting left behind? Other than that? Bring it.
Final note : If VR is gonna take off like I think it is, it could easily fund this research and then some. The future is in flux, love it.