Future neuroscience, psychology, and smart drugs, would help a lot. But I don't think they alone can help us keep pace with the power of superintelligence that can be built in a decade or two.
Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] can superintelligence-augmented humans compete Edward, One thought that occurs to me - & I'm sure s.o. has pursued this line, but I can't think of anyone - if we have full control of our brain, our intelligence will be massively improved. And we should be able to get something like full control with future neuroscience and psychology. The "problem" of the brain is that it has the best user interface ever invented - effectively a blank screen - no "File" "Open" "Search" etc - just blank. From there you can do anything - explore a subject in a vast variety of modes - remember, visualise, generalise, particularise, past tense, future tense, etc. etc. Beautifully convenient. Steve Jobs would kill for something like that. Except that the consequence of this arrangement is that we sacrifice control - we don't know exactly what faculties we have, and where our memories are stored. [And as a result arguably everyone fails to use or develop important faculties, and most of the human race, among other things, never really get to use their creative faculties]. Now if we did have control, and could easily find any memory in our brain, and really were in full possession of our faculties, we would all be vastly more efficient and effective thinkers. (An awful lot of time at the moment in thinking, can be spent just racking one's brain for appropriate memories). P.S. Of course this kind of thinking is irrelevant to all current AGI's because none of them have selves driving the machine and using or not using faculties, (i.e. bicameral minds). But robots, it already seems clear, will. I WOULD BE INTERESTING IN OTHER PEOPLE'S THOUGHTS ON THESE ISSUES, BECAUSE THEY SEEMS TO BE IMPORTANT ONES IN DETERMINING HOW IMPORTANT HUMAN WETWARE AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS CAN CONTINUE TO BE IN THE SUPERINTELLIGENT FUTURE. Ed Porter _____ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/? <http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > & ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=60787805-a59095
