Humans augmented far enough to stop being idiots, smart enough that they never put faith in a step that will not hold, as do not exist in this world today, could handle it. But that’s the army you need; and if instead you go to war with the army you have, you just get slaughtered by a higher grade of problem than you can handle.
Sounds like intelligence amplification. 100 brains in a vat is a good form of augmentation since we know there are fundamental limits to augmenting one human brain (heat, calories and oxygen supply, fixed space for more grey matter, immune system rejection, insanity, damage from installing deep brain electrode grids, need for more advanced technology to install on the order of billions of electrodes..) so why not 100.
Just a ‘few minor problems’ with needing to master all of human biology to keep 100 brains in a tank alive long enough to get results. Biology, it’s just so damn complicated, and 1.5 million papers are published every year. Plus to keep brains alive you need to be an expert on the immune system, and circulatory, and liver and digestion, and all their weird organs that nobody knows what they do. It’s just so hard to find anyone qualified to make decisions multiple times a second to keep the brains alive.
If only there was a solution, some way to automate this process. You’d need greater than human intelligence though...
Totally reasonable, the big man would agree:
https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1773064617239150796
Sounds like intelligence amplification. 100 brains in a vat is a good form of augmentation since we know there are fundamental limits to augmenting one human brain (heat, calories and oxygen supply, fixed space for more grey matter, immune system rejection, insanity, damage from installing deep brain electrode grids, need for more advanced technology to install on the order of billions of electrodes..) so why not 100.
Just a ‘few minor problems’ with needing to master all of human biology to keep 100 brains in a tank alive long enough to get results. Biology, it’s just so damn complicated, and 1.5 million papers are published every year. Plus to keep brains alive you need to be an expert on the immune system, and circulatory, and liver and digestion, and all their weird organs that nobody knows what they do. It’s just so hard to find anyone qualified to make decisions multiple times a second to keep the brains alive.
If only there was a solution, some way to automate this process. You’d need greater than human intelligence though...