PopSci: The Memory Hacker - Ted Berger
Remedying Alzheimer’s disease would, if Berger’s grand vision plays out, be as simple as upgrading a bit of hardware. No more complicated drug regimens with their frustrating side effects. A surgeon simply implants a few computerized brain cells, and the problem is solved. -- Can a chunk of silicon really stand in for brain cells? I ask. “I don’t need a grand theory of the mind to fix what is essentially a signal-processing problem,” he says. “A repairman doesn’t need to understand music to fix your broken CD player.”
Eliezer Yudkowskyn puhe Singularity Summitista
In this world, there are well-paid, highly trained professionals whose job it is to sell lipstick, because the owners of the lipstick corporation care too much about selling lipstick to leave the job to amateurs or unpaid volunteers. The Singularity Institute was founded on the principle that the fate of the human species deserves at least one-thousandth the consideration we give to lipstick.