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@SeanBlanda I enjoyed your "The other side is not dumb". Curious, what readers have reported to you as changed behavior based upon your arguments. I took another route at a similar end point, attempting to become "cognitively perfect"
5/ In a world dominated by capitalism, this entire argument/situation boils down to one thing: The Economics of Human Improvement. Simply put: every day there are lessening economic incentives to improve humans vs computers. Further explained here:
4/ I'll add the missing piece to wrap up all of @harari_yuval's arguments: our data is the single most precious asset we own because it has the unique power to help us radically improve ourselves and avoid becoming irrelevant.
3/ "More practically, and more immediately, if we want to prevent the concentration of all wealth and power in the hands of a small elite, we must regulate the ownership of data." @harari_yuval #ownyourdata
2/ "Currently, humans risk becoming similar to domesticated animals...If we are not careful, we will end up with downgraded humans misusing upgraded computers to wreak havoc on themselves and on the world."
1/ This is the single most important priority in the world "for every dollar and every minute we invest in improving AI, we would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in exploring and developing human consciousness." @harari_yuval
Rojas-Berscia, a hyperpolyglot, has a command of twenty-two living languages, speaking thirteen fluently. How long until we can explain this?
We're just beginning to get a peak about how large the discovery landscape is for the brain. Tools to usher in the The Age of Cognition can't arrive soon enough.
Fun read by @nattyover "Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals hiding in our midst" HT @edyong209