Comments on: A new solid-state hard drive that uses ultrasound to store more data

By: Fred Bosick

Fred Bosick — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:03:37 +0000

What would you call it, if in 1993, someone told you IBM made a computer that beat Jeopardy champions. AI gets redefined every time someone builds a thing that once required human input but now is done by a machine. Whatever “super human intelligence” is, it’s creeping up all around us right now. 10 years is plenty of time for even more amazing things to happen.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:32:14 +0000

And, of course, if I may choose, I will choose assimilation over annihilation.
Individuality and the so-called “human dignity” are not that important to me, if I can live on, participate in the coming galactic civilization, and eventually enter the Omega Point.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:27:53 +0000

Perhaps the scientists can tell us how to perform “shift-sleeping”:
How to make parts of your brain sleep while the rest of it stays awake and working.
Shift the sleeping parts. Every 24 hours your brain is “refreshed” through choreographed, shifted rest, without wasting any time on whole-brain sleeping.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:24:32 +0000

The ideal way to work, to me, is to: do phyiscal works like a somnambulist and do mental works like a lucid dreamer.
If there are some of my drudgeries that cannot be done by robots, I can at least work without being aware of that I am working on or making conscious effort.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:19:38 +0000

I have, on the blogs of a few futurists, saw the abusive term “vaporware peddler” being used toward Kurzweil, Vinge, Yudkowsky and other researchers. Probabily a consequence that they must endure that comes with their popularity.
BTW, I am rather unworried about the sudden rise of superintelligences.
If the Singularity happens tomorrow (say an AGI is accidentally created), I will be elated. What comes after that (whether annihilation or assimilation) is of little concern.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:15:20 +0000

I wonder how does this new technology contribute to the Singularity? Is this new hard drive compatible with the D-Wave quantum computers?
Vernor Vinge, in 1993, predicted that “within 30 years we will have the means to create superhuman intelligence.”
It is already 2 thirds of the way by 2013. Where is the superhuman intelligence?

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:34:07 +0000

Although they have a better understanding of sleep they still don’t know even why we need to. From what I understand all anklimqls sleep in some form. It’s one of the big problem in terms of being able to compete with with. Strong AI robot for jobs. As for brain augmentation we need to understand how it works first. We are just beginning to understand how it communicates internally. The sensors that are being developed for brain research will morph into the tools for true upgrade integration. I would guess that will probably be at least 10 to 20 years from now.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:39:58 +0000

“Lucid dreaming” sounds like the exact opposite of somnoambulism.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:35:13 +0000

You’ve got to talk to our regular commenter, GatorALLin. He practices lucid dreaming. With that, you could stay interfaced with your computer and surf the web in your dreams, SmartAndSober.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:59:31 +0000

I have always wished that my brain can have the perfect memory of computers.
I have also always wished that my computer can have the creativity and other forms of cognitive flexibility of my brain.
When the two slowly combine (thanks to the increasingly friendly and streamlined interfaces), I wish they can be as productive as possible.
Is there a method, one achievable in a home lab, to cyborgize harddrives (especialy new ones like the one featured here) to my brain?
How may I be totally freed from sleeping, and stay lucid and alert for twenty four hours a day?
I really want to know.