We have plenty of myths around what moral "perfection" looks like (i.e. religious figures) but who are the mythical heroes of cognitive "perfection"?

I took a stab at architecting how one might begin striving for cognitive "perfection"

First up: Why did I care that Ben Franklin had done this before me?

"The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others."

Benjamin Franklin attempted moral “perfection.” Over the next 13 weeks, I’m attempting cognitive “perfection.” Me vs 188 biases - 😳

RT @AdamMarblestone: "But what if you could create neural interfaces that would act as a mirror of the mind? People could see how they thou…

Brain-Computer Interfaces: ‘The Last Frontier of Human Privacy’ - a convo w/ @danielas_bot

Instead of stubbornly believing/thinking/hoping that AI won't be able replicate some human magic - what makes us "special" - a more promising approach is to embrace maximizing new "specialness" creation through co-evolution.

RT @ChaseKregor: Such an awesome piece by @bryan_johnson. "Science begins with counting. To understand a phenomenon, a scientist must first…

Blockchain community, thoughts on this? "Amazon was just granted a patent for tracking Bitcoin transactions and selling the data to the government" HT @AdamMarblestone

If we could measure, and understand, our brain’s activity (i.e. Attebytes), it would be a historical turning point for Homo sapiens, making radical human cognitive evolution possible.

@wintermoot @johnmsmart @jm3 Credit fixed, thanks