Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind
it’s just solid facts.
Of course, we can always rely on our President to take care of it and
help us out of this jam. After all, that’s what he was elected for: to think for
us. Therefore, what is our President’s standpoint? DARPA explains it to us:
DARPA anticipates investing up to $60 million in the NESD program over
four years.
NESD is part of a broader portfolio of programs within DARPA that
supports President Obama’s brain initiative. For more information about
DARPA’s work in that domain, please visit:
http://www.darpa.mil/program/our-research/darpa-and-the-braininitiative.
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What a surprise! Obama is in on this. Does the reader think that if
Hillary Clinton or, “God help us,” Donald “the Trumpet” Trump will
become our next President, either of them will oppose the Singularity? Of
course you don’t.
The Gizmodo.com website comments on the DARPA article we’ve just
discussed by writing,
So DARPA wants to turn neural language into digital code, potentially
opening up scenarios wherein the human brain can mainline data and
people can talk to machines simply by thinking. Like having the internet
inside your head—which would not be overwhelming at all. 263
This is a good perspective, but what the article misses is that not only
will we have the Internet in our head when the MIC is done with us; we
will have a billion-times more information in our heads, but it will not even
be overwhelming.
We are currently using 3-7% of our brain capacity (which quite well
corresponds with how much of our DNA is activated), but again, when the
MIC and the AIF have completed the Singularity goal, our brain capacity
will be 100%--or next to it! However, this astonishing capacity will also be
100% controlled, so the gain for us is virtually nothing. Even more
important is the following: what will make humans so powerful if our full
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Ibid. op. cit.
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Gizmodo.com, Jan. 19, 2015, “The US Military Wants a Chip to Translate Your Brain Activity Into Binary Code“
op. cit.
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