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

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:04:35AM -0500, Yan King Yin wrote:

> It's quite obvious that the nematode cannot generate much
> profit. I think my scheme will probably involve human-level

The nematode upload is a difficult target. Academically, there's not that
much science in it, but a lot of tedium (automating a tedious manual process
doesn't count as science). Outside of the ivory tower, no conventional
investor will sink money into something with a decade-delay payoff.

> applications, such as neuroprothesis. Also notice that AI

I'm somewhat at loss what your scheme is -- do you have a good writeup?
Also the application transfer appears highly speculative.

> does NOT require a lot of neuroscience that is required for
> uploading. So, it seems uploading is a hard problem
> financially.

Well, duh.
 
> 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.

Starting with a simple target _is_ systematic treatment. Theory doesn't help
if you're trying to develop scanning automation. You need engineers, not
scientists for that.

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