Mind-readers as a neglected life extension strategy
Last updated: 2020-03-30
Status: idea to integrate in a longer article
Assuming that:
Death is bad
Lifelogging is a bet worth taking as a life extension strategy
It seems like a potentially really important and neglected intervention is improving mind readers as this is by far the most important part of our experience that isn’t / can’t be captured at the moment.
We don’t actually need to be able to read the mind right now, just to be able to record the mind with sufficiently high resolution (plausibly along text and audio recording to be able to determine which brain patterns correspond to what kind of thoughts).
Questions:
Assuming we had extremely good software, how much could we read minds with our current hardware? (ie. how much is it worth recording your thoughts right now?)
How inconvenient would it be? How much would it cost?
To do:
Ask on Metaculus some operationalisation of the first question
Mind-readers as a neglected life extension strategy
Last updated: 2020-03-30
Status: idea to integrate in a longer article
Assuming that:
Death is bad
Lifelogging is a bet worth taking as a life extension strategy
It seems like a potentially really important and neglected intervention is improving mind readers as this is by far the most important part of our experience that isn’t / can’t be captured at the moment.
We don’t actually need to be able to read the mind right now, just to be able to record the mind with sufficiently high resolution (plausibly along text and audio recording to be able to determine which brain patterns correspond to what kind of thoughts).
Questions:
Assuming we had extremely good software, how much could we read minds with our current hardware? (ie. how much is it worth recording your thoughts right now?)
How inconvenient would it be? How much would it cost?
To do:
Ask on Metaculus some operationalisation of the first question