What does it even mean to 'merge' with Ai? Just constant learning? That'll be pretty overwhelming. Or just to know something at the speed of GPT? Which I'm sure would be pretty overwhelming too. I don't really understand this.

I think op means not having to eat to live and only need electricity.

Maybe it can be used to convert existing movies into 3D so that we can watch them in VR and feel like we're there.

The point is to make humanity a collective hivemind to harness our total knowledge and common goals for optimal harmony and efficiency. We can retain individuality while choosing what thoughts to share, letting the transparent technocratic government examine our mind when it's absolutely necessary, or an AI to help guide our every move. It's worth it if no one can be corrupt by having everyone be transparent and the government allows people to do as they please as long as no innocents are harmed.

The process of merging has already begun.

We are very closely connected with our smartphones. What is still missing is a physical fusion aka transplantation.

Perhaps the present can be compared to a phase in which we have created important basic applications for what we will later implement in our physical body (navi, wiki, calendar, email, multimedia applications, image recognition and analysis a la Google Lens, virtual folders for storing and sharing information...).

Very many people are already taking care not to be separated from their smartphone. This also has many obvious and commonly known advantages. So currently the open beta is already running.

I do not want to hurt anyone and apologize if I hurt anyone with the following.

Maybe there is still a key technology missing. The BCI. As with prosthetics, it is people with their backs against the wall who are voluntarily testing the latest technologies. They are also the ones to whom we as a society are happy to provide these technologies as compensation for a stroke of fate, if they so desire.

This application of these technologies to themselves represents a massive intervention in the organism. You lose something and you gain something. Lower leg prostheses enable their owners to achieve better results in several disciplines of athletics, which is why people with these prostheses cannot participate in competitions with people without these prostheses. It would be unfair.

On the other hand, at present it is not possible to receive and process sensory impressions from these pieces of physical hardware.

Currently, the break evan point has not yet been reached here, where healthy people begin to seriously consider trading their sensory ability for better performance in athletics.

Prostheses are still considered unnatural to some people. Perhaps they should be seen more. Perhaps now is not the time for a widespread shift in perceptions of prosthetics, which I believe is coming.

A BCI could (if a prosthesis is equipped with appropriate sensors) calculate and simulate emo sensations to the brain. Also with BCI, it will be people who colloquially have their backs against the wall and who we as a society want to help improve their situation.

Yes I think a successive fusion has begun. Perhaps now is not the time for a widespread shift in perceptions of prosthetics, which I believe is coming. We will greatly change our image of what it means to be human. But that won't feel bad at the time. Perhaps the curve of genetic and implant changes in the human body is also exponential.

We are in an open beta right now and with market readiness of a key technology, a transformation point could be reached quickly.

We will see. Being connected to the cloud defeats the purpose of technoligal advancement in my opinion.

I miss the days where you could go to the library and nobody cared about your business. Now you can do research on your smartphone, but you leave a footprint whatever you do. Still worth it.

Have your mind exposed 24/7? Not worth it in my opinion.

You aren't thinking too hard then, clearing up any misunderstandings among humanity and having instant clear communication with anyone is incredibly useful, along with being able to control technology with your mind. This tech is also used to restore bodily functions. Ideally you will get to choose what is uploaded and read/used. If the physical world doesn't improve with AI accelerationism then VR isn't going to be feasible either since you won't be provided the conditions to stay there unless you are part of the privileged, and it's unlikely to be that great anytime soon if people irl aren't provided the conditions to build such an amazing VR.

We already have. If you want a better interface, it's not clear to me if we will get neuralink type devices first, or nanobots that will gradually replace our neurons with artificial ones, making us post human. I guess time will tell, but I'm guessing 20 years.

It is more important to be together that to be right for humans in the wild. You are genius who knows the tribe should go left, but they all want to go right, you go the right way and die. They go the wrong way together and overcome challenges. It’s how we evolved for groupthink. Zebras have stripes not to hide in environment, but in between each other to not be different from the group.

Most people will just repeat what is the current status quo, they are chatGtps saying what they think should be said. It’s our species, nothing wrong with that once you understand it you accept it.

They will say it is like it is when it is what everyone sayis and go about their lives.

I see no utility in that.

My inner self is the very part I want to keep for myself. Not interested to be sucked up by the cloud.

I hope the physical world gets better once AI transformation accelerates. If it is not though, sign me up for a virtual reality. Then I have no use for my body anyway.

>Genghis Khan didn't do what he did for a lack of space.

Don't pretend to know his motivations. Take a look at 'great' people today, the ones that get written about. Is Putin Genghis Khan? He's futilely fighting for the future of his crumbling empire and dying out people yet he's a monster. And a bit of a pathetic clown.

Also, that's where the grow strong part comes in. We must compete or die in the ultimate, technical sense. But less scarcity has translated into less violent competition so far. Llet's push that further and see how far it scales first, before giving up on all growth and life. (Not that I would anyway, it's axiomatic to my identity)

I have this fear but its for the general collapse of capitalist society and supply chains so im convinced i need to buy some land where i can grow food all year round.. cant shake it

Companies are making rapid progress on analyzing how everything in there works, impossible is quite the strong word to use, I'd say it's likely possible no later than another century though probably way sooner since we will probably have very solid control of things with our mind relatively soon considering the results seen with the monkey and pig they demonstrated with. I'm not sure why you think that would result in immortality though, that's pretty unrelated.

> There's space for all of us.

Of course there is, but Genghis Khan didn't do what he did for a lack of space.

There's space for all of us. We might need to eat each other before the very end, but we're barely into the stellar age. I want to see as much of it as I can.

From my understanding the human brain is the only body part we have not figured out yet. It is like a quantum computer. We have no idea how it actually works . It is impossible to read thoughts

When we reach that level of understanding, we already live forever anyway. No need to expose yourself to the cloud

Precisely.

And what makes you think it'll be you, if that's the moral system that we're operating on?

Thursday: Release of "Stable Human Fusion" Biomass-to-AI converter

Seems a lot of people are thinking we need BCI's to keep up with AI and I tend to agree, unfortunately I think the reality will be we cannot make effective BCI's that will be good enough without the help of AI. Pretty sure we are going to need some of that magic alien nanotech to do it right. So it's kind of a catch 22.

But hopefully there will be a bit of a window of opportunity where we can maybe grab some of those delicious cookie crumbs coming from the AI before it goes full Super Saiyan.

it will happen 2 days after our children die

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I've never understood the appeal of this.

I'm sure there's a larger application that will be realized down the line, but it feels like we've been seeing the same fake 3D photos for the last five years.

„No matter where you are, everyone‘s connected.“ - Serial Experiments Lain, Episode 2.

I want to grow strong. I want to survive. I want to have many children and to see them spread across every corner of the universe they can reach before we're all snuffed out by entropy or chance. Basically what any living organism wants.