[MURG] Future of MURG (reply Ed's question)

[Yan King Yin]

>> Suppose I'm a private funder. I'm not a scientist -
>> say my technical
>> knowlege is at the level of Star Trek - but I also
>> know there's lots
>> of smake-oil salesmen in the world. What's your
>> sales pitch? You
>> don't need to sell me on the benefits of
>> immortality, I'm already
>> with you on that. What I want to know is: just who
>> and what will
>> my money be spent on? What's the research project?
>
>And the most important question: how do you as an
>investor make a profit from this?  Is it possible to
>use nematode (or higher animal) brains to for instance
>run a traffic light system?  Or to schedule a
>production line?

It's quite obvious that the nematode cannot generate much
profit. I think my scheme will probably involve human-level
applications, such as neuroprothesis. Also notice that AI
does NOT require a lot of neuroscience that is required for
uploading. So, it seems uploading is a hard problem
financially.

Another point I want to make is that the development of
uploading does not necessarily have to recapitulate the
whole phylogeny from nematode up. Trial and error is NOT
the way to go. We need theory and systematic treatment.
YKY


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