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@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden
I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.
Neurotypical people. Please listen to me. I promise you, with all the ADHD in my body-
You really do not want 1,000 more thoughts.
You may think you do, but you extremely do not.
Skipping the AI bullshit... having 1000x thoughts sucks because you can't act on them. You can't move or type 1000x times faster to do 1000x things. If brain-computer interface would let you not only think 1000x faster but also do things faster it would be... it might not be terrible.
Maybe more thought per action would lead to better decision making
Allow me to reframe that. It would lead to more successful decision making. Whatever that might mean, good or bad.
Oh, you can't? For the cheap price of $999.99 (weekly), you can have access to cutting edge AI models which will act on those thoughts for you.
Maybe you can use some of those thousands of thoughts to mind- control a bunch of robots. Then you could accomplish an equivalent amount of things physically as if you could move 1000x faster.
Also typing should not be an issue if you have your brain hardwired to the spicy autocorrect demon.
Your physical body would probably burn out at that speed. Perhaps some substantial speed increases would be in order? 1.5x? 2x? Imagine the friction of going 1000x; in your joints, in your organs; the blood flow, the stress on your heart.
We tried this shit in the 80s with cocaine. Tech bros all just want virtual cocaine.
Obviously I don't mean physically moving 1000x faster. Probably just the shockwave would destroy your apartment and kill everyone around you.
But if you could access and send information 1000x faster... you could code custom OS in couple hours (days?), you could research anything in microseconds, you could shitpost at incredible frequency...
Banks describes something like that in... Matter I believe. A character uses her brain-computer interface to check the route to another solar system, weeks away, with all the ships she will have take and were she will have to rendezvous with them and she does it in a blink of an eye, without losing track of the conversation she's having.
This reminds me of a nosleep story a youtuber I watch read.
If I could just get something to record all the ideas that come up while I'm in the middle of something and the juices are flowing that would be great. Maybe check my parts inventory to see I have all the stuff I'd need to act on it or look up reference information while it's at it. That'd be way better than my current strategy of jotting down a quick note and not looking at it again until I'm no longer in the zone and don't feel like doing anything.
Not putting a chip in my head though, it'd have to be some kind of self hosted thing I could talk to.
It's also a bit of a zero sum thing. My brain might have 1000x the normal amount of thought, but they're not as well thought out, nor as complex, and it burns through energy to do it.
Your energy reserves would deplete in three minutes, and then you're nursing a headache or feeling awful the rest of the day.