On: RNA Memory Hypothesis

[nynx]

Very interesting, but also worrying, in a way. If neurons are actually reasonably large, complex computers in their own right, brain emulation is much further off than some people are thinking. It's possible that ASC brain preservation doesn't preserve the internal details necessary if this hypothesis ends up being true.

[asdfasgasdgasdg → nynx]

To be fair it's more than just possible that ASC brain preservation doesn't work even under any other hypothesis of cognition.

[nynx → asdfasgasdgasdg]

That's true. I think the fair way to put it that it's possible that ASC preserves the necessary data to simulate a brain.

[Voloskaya → nynx]

This is the opposite of worrying.

[nynx → Voloskaya]

How so?

[Voloskaya → nynx]

You seemed to be saying that it is worrying, as it may indicate brain emulation is much further off than some people are thinking.

This indication is the opposite of worrying to me, it's reassuring.

[earthboundkid → Voloskaya]

You don’t want everything you or anyone else has loved or valued to be replaced unimaginable monsters?

[Dylan16807 → earthboundkid]

You're going to have to explain what you're talking about.

Everything be replaced? What does that have to do with brain emulation?

Also I think you're implying that brain emulation will lead to more "unimaginable monsters", when it could very easily be the opposite: if you can't emulate a brain then an AI has to be even weirder and harder to understand.

[undersuit → Dylan16807]

Dystopian futures where you exist as only as much as your can afford. It's cheapest to download yourself into a computer and slow down your computation speed than to continue to pay have a flesh and blood body.