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kleinbl00  ·  2451 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Don't Think You Truly Grok The Problem.

Never mind the tone, let's focus on specifics:

    Brain Computer-Interfaces (BCI) getting "brainy" in 10 years, and then 20, and then 30 --

Why ten years? Why twenty? Why thirty?

    It's not necessary -- because a better race will be here, vastly better than anything before it, by a magnitude of 100x.

Why a hundred times over? Why not a thousand? Why not ten?

You keep pointing to the end. We keep pointing at the middle. You keep saying "but I am the mighty and powerful Wizard of Oz, look at the end." Read my lips, man - I have a little background in implantable devices. It taught me, above all else, that no matter how tightly your tech cleaves to Moore's Law, biology is biology and if you want your cyborg to retain an immune system you're facing a whole 'nuther regime of progress. And I recognize that "brain-computer interfaces (BCI)" has fuckall to do with AI...

...but I'm not sure you do.

And no matter how many times we ask about the fuzzy shit in the middle, your answer is

So just for the sake of argument, can you give this shit a try as if we're actually listening? As if we're actually trying to have a conversation? As if this is something more than you standing on a corner with a megaphone and a sandwich board?

Please?