From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 04 1999 - 13:40:28 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> You may be right about not getting a chance to neurohack the
> kids (for ethical reasons), but I'll give you better than
> even money by ~2010-2015 you'll be given the opportunity
> to do it with adults.
Too late. I mean, I'll seize the chance if I can get it, but:
1) If you want an actual Specialist, a true intelligence enhancement,
you have to start with a kid and ideally an infant. I was showing signs
as far back as age three, maybe earlier. I'd be surprised if they could
even help before age 11 or so, and age 15-17 would be the point of
maximum productivity. That's a ten-year lead time. If we got started
on it tomorrow they might still not arrive in time for Singularity.
2) Adults have less of a lead time - I would assume just a few months
to get used to it - but aside from "freeing the mind" from the yoke of
evolution, enhancing self-awareness, and bringing abilities under
conscious control, there's not all that much you can do. That's nothing
to sneeze at - it counts as true transhumanity - but it's not an AI
Specialist either. Their primary role would be as absolutely
trustworthy leaders and the like; I'd be thinking of them more in terms
of cushions for nanocracy.
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