Merge

It's not necessarily
A doomsday countdown
People call it the singularity
And that's probably
A good way to think about it
It's a singularity
It's hard to predict
Like a black hole
What happens past the event horizon?
It could be terrible
And it could be great
It's not clear
One thing is for sure
We will not control it
The ah, merge scenario with AI is
The one that seems like probably the best
If you can't
Beat it
Join it
I guess, best case scenario
We effectively merge with AI
Where AI serves as a tertiary cognition layer
Where we've got the limbic system
Primitive brain essentially
You've got the cortex
So you're currently
Your cortex and limbic system
Are in a symbiotic relationship
And generally people
Like their cortex
And they like the limbic system
I haven't met anyone
Who wants to delete their limbic system
Or delete their cortex
Everybody seems to like both
And the cortex
Is mostly in service to the limbic system
People may think that
That the thinking part of themselves is in charge
But it's mostly their limbic system
That's in charge
And the cortex is trying
To make the limbic system happy
That's what most of that computing power
Is oriented towards
How can I make the limbic system
Happy?
That's what it's trying to do

Now, if we do have a third layer
Which is the AI extension of yourself
That is also symbiotic
And there's enough bandwidth
Between the cortex
And the AI extension of yourself
Such that the AI
Doesn't defacto separate
Then that could be
A good outcome
That could be quite a positive outcome
For the future
To really appreciate the difference
It's kinda like how much smarter are you
With a phone, computer
Than without?
You're vastly smarter actually
Can answer any question
Pretty much instantly
Any calculation
Your phone's memory is essentially perfect
You can remember flawlessly
Videos
Pictures
Everything
Perfectly
Your phone is already an extension of you
You're already a cyborg
Most people don't realize
They are already a cyborg
That phone is an extension of yourself
It's just that
The data rate
Is a communication rate
Between you and the cybernetic extension
Of yourself, that is your phone
And computer, is slow
It's very slow
And that is like a tiny straw
Of information flow between
Your biological self
And your digital self
And we need to make that tiny straw
Like a giant river
A huge, high bandwidth interface
It's an interface problem
A data rate problem
Solve the data rate problem
And I think
We can hang on to human-machine symbiosis
Through the long term
And then people may decide
That they want to retain their biological self or not
I think they'll probably choose
To retain their biological self
It will be essentially snapshotted
Into a computer at any time
If your biological self dies
You can just probably
Just upload it into a new unit
Literally