Re: First steps toward a Moravec Transfer?

From: Nathan Russell (nrussell@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 15:44:36 MST


--On Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:54 AM -0500 "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky"
<sentience@pobox.com> wrote:

> (Hippocampal replacement implant.)
>
> Coolness factor off the scale, but my guess is that, mysteriously, it
> will turn out not to work, and no one ever quite gets it to work until
> they figure out what the algorithms are doing.

Probably true. EIther that or it will be banned for ethical issues
involving the "soul".

Does anyone know how they are accomplishing the brain/computer interface?
I thought that was still an unsolved problem.

Nathan



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