I just read this. He thinks that within a decade or two most of our brains will live in the cloud facilitated by advanced brain-computer interfaces. These augmented brains would be unfathomably more powerful that biological brains. This got me thinking, "What about the people who don't get the implant? How will they be treated? What kind of world will they live in?"

>>24524221 (OP)
They'll be slaves if not culled by a bio weapon. BCIxASI will be kept to elites and will create a transhuman dystopia. Everyone developing this tech and shilling for it deserves what's coming.

Holy pseud. AI is not real. The mind is not material, it can't be "put in the cloud".

>>24524221 (OP)
Sounds like a bad sci-fi novel.

>>24524221 (OP)
i think i would opt out. i think there will be room for a non plugged in branch of society. the cost will probably be having a non-decision-making existence (like most other species of animals and indeed like most other people even now).
and i think the accelerationist branch will either blast off somewhere incomprehensible to us, or will crash and die.

it might be a hard decision to make, like the equivalent of trying to live without your phone except probably a lot harder to do, but I feel a lot of people are starting to find that sort of life appealing.

>>24524460
Why would you need slaves if you can get the bots to do it for you

>>24524470
Yeah totally because humans be having souls n sheeit

>>24524221 (OP)
Transhumanism is a cope, it's a political movement like any other (it will go nowhere).

>>24524478
Did you not read the second part of the sentence saying everyone will be killed off then?

I love how these people are invariably hard determinist materialists but also believe they can "upload" their minds into da cloud and become intelligent like AI and shit.

>>24524221 (OP)
I work in Neuromodulation for Parkinson’s disease.

We are not even close. The closest thing to a closed loop Neuromod system right now just measures one specific frequency in the beta band and adjusts the stim output based on that signal.

The neuralink stuff is interesting but its motor cortex which is relatively easily mapped and translated compared to full/complicated brain function as you would see with things like thoughts.


I also don’t see how what he described would even be desirable or good.

>>24524474
I agree and I think I would also choose to live as a human instead of whatever this is. I’m not really worried though because as it stands it’s literally just sci fi fanaticism for weirdos that hate humanity.

>>24524540
>weirdos that hate humanity
I've read a lot of Kurzweil's books, and I just don't get a misanthropy vibe from him. He'a definitely not Peter Thiel.

>>24524569
Maybe not him in particular. I have not read him. I just get that vibe from many of the transhumanists.

>>24524579
Kurzweil strikes me as a modestly wealthy elderly computer scientist who is extremely uncomfortable with the prospect of dying. Compared to other transhumanists (who will sometimes go mask off and just outright say the plebs don't matter) Kurzweil is pretty tame.