Imagine how life would change if a solar flare acted as an EMP and fried the majority of electronics on Earth. Even some of the simplest items have some sort of solid state regulator or components that may not survive such a hit. Modrn batteries have solid state ICS to help in charging or protecting it's cells from over charging.
There has been a debate raging for decades on whether "equality" means equal access to opportunities or forcing equal outcomes.
WHERE is this data going to come from? The internet?
What happens if the servers get corrupted with false information, or if
they go down?
What happens when the electric grid goes down?
Dependency on simple point of sale systems and processing a payment are a problem when the electric grid goes down, even for just a few minutes.
The high-technology of neural implants will be useless when someone pulls the plug, literally.
The "network" can fail. I posit that those who are "pure" (no implants) could be highly desirable to intercede (and thus valuable) to fix or override a problem.
Our bodies are not meant to be deeply augmented with technology like the fictional writers depict. We have to take anti-rejection drugs and blood thinners to counteract the body's natural detendency to eliminate what it perceives to be an invasion.
AND, the tech/body interface is highly prone to infection. Just ask
people who've had feeding tubes connected to their stomach.
What movies? I'm only really thinking the Borg from Star Trek here.. And why would we want to lose our individualism and become a collective?
I think we have a ways to go before we fully understand if human-made machines with AI are (or can be) really alive and have sentience or not.. But I'm still wondering why we'd want to do that.
No, I don't mean you can protect yourself against hackers with sporting goods if you get augmented - I mean something as simple as a baseball bat or golf club can take the present modern un-augmented human "off-line" with less effort than a hacker would have to put in.
We don't understand the mind well enough to know if this well work, and even if we could increase rote capabilities, would it make us more intelligent?
I think technophiles take a very limited, and myopic view of what intelligence is, and what mental abilities we need in order to create a great civilisation.
Free will creates creatures that can go either wrong or right. As C.S. Lewis said "if a thing is free to be good, it can also be free to be bad - and free will is wha
has made evil possible."
Is a "world of autometa, of creatures that work like machines" a world worth creating? I think technocrats like Musk believe so. It's the only way mankind, as a speciFree will makes evil possible, but also makes good possible.
will ever be able to move in one direction.
Claiming that surrendering free will in order to achieve peace is a worthwhile price is like claiming that bending knee to a maniacal tyrant is a worthwhile price. Sure,
there would have not been a WWII if everybody had bent knee to Hitler. There would have been a decade of genetic cleansing and then everybody would have lived in peace
under his boot.
Andeddu wrote to Gamgee <=-
I think in the short term it'll be sold as a kind of quality of
life upgrade for human beings. Imagine having the ability to
access data as quickly as a computer, or having the memory of an autistic savant. Humans will no longer be hindered by the brain's inability to learn anything quickly... imagine learning a new
language in a day. That's the kind of potential that Musk speaks
of when he talks of a a brain-machine interface. Even an a below average intellect could be elevated to the standards of geniuses
today.
And you think that is a Good Thing...?
It's good in the sense that it'll improve our chances of one day
becoming a spacefaring species, bad in the sense that we'll lose
our humanity.
Nightfox wrote to Andeddu <=-
I think the idea is that we'll lose our individualism to become a very efficient collective. All those sci-fi movies you've watched where humanity is at peace, it's because we've sacrificed our individual beliefs and identitiy to become a unified collective. I believe this may be the case by the end of the century.
What movies? I'm only really thinking the Borg from Star Trek
here.. And why would we want to lose our individualism and
become a collective?
What movies? I'm only really thinking the Borg from Star Trek here..
And why would we want to lose our individualism and become a
collective?
Don't the humans in Star Trek belong to the United Federation which Earth, as a nationless planet ruled by a World Government, is a part of? It's the same in films and shows like Serenity, Firefly and Starship Troopers, where Earth is depicted as a United Federation. There are many other examples of humanity acting as a collective but they elude me right now.
I think we have a ways to go before we fully understand if human-made
machines with AI are (or can be) really alive and have sentience or
not.. But I'm still wondering why we'd want to do that.
"I think therefore I am" - Descartes
Any creature capable of any form of thought necessarily exists, and I believe this extends to silicon based beings as well.
Yes, we are going to be hooked up to some kind of internet with the intention of us, as humans, joining a hivemind. I am sure there will be failsafes, as this kind of development won't happen until the end of the century... if everything shutdown, I guess we'd just become mere humans again...
Imagine relying on a computer to do all of your low-level processing, such as structuring a sentence, and then being completely shut-off from the network after it goes offline. I think people would struggle to communicate with each other thereafter. We'd be like little babies all over again, unable to articulate anything until the network's brought back online.
health, etc... a lot of us will buy into and become invested in the idea as it will, in a more mature stage of development, provide benefits to those who are fully abled.
I wanted to get a Neuralink so that I could get an Arduino board with a CANBUS-Shield connected to my cars ODBII port so that I could neurally interface with my car. The most the thing is gonna realistically be able to is read signals and send them to other places via Bluetooth. I want an interface hard wire plug option.
No shit? Wish I knew WTF you were talking about. ;-)
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