TL;DR I know a researcher who’s going to start studying C. elegans worms in a way that seems interesting as far as I can tell. Should I do something about that?
I’m trying to understand if this is interesting for our community, specifically as a path to brain emulation, which I wonder if could be used to (A) prevent people from dying, and/or (B) creating a relatively-aligned AGI.
This is the most relevant post I found on LW/EA (so far).
I’m hoping someone with more domain expertise can say something like:
“OMG we should totally extra fund this researcher and send developers to help with the software and data science and everything!”
“This sounds pretty close to something useful but there are changes I’d really like to see in that research”
“Whole brain emulation is science fiction, we’ll obviously destroy the world or something before we can implement it”
“There is a debate on whether this is useful, the main positions are [link] and [link], also totally talk to [person]”
Any chance someone can give me direction?
Thx!
(My background is in software, not biology or neurology)
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TL;DR I know a researcher who’s going to start studying C. elegans worms in a way that seems interesting as far as I can tell. Should I do something about that?
I’m trying to understand if this is interesting for our community, specifically as a path to brain emulation, which I wonder if could be used to (A) prevent people from dying, and/or (B) creating a relatively-aligned AGI.
This is the most relevant post I found on LW/EA (so far).
I’m hoping someone with more domain expertise can say something like:
“OMG we should totally extra fund this researcher and send developers to help with the software and data science and everything!”
“This sounds pretty close to something useful but there are changes I’d really like to see in that research”
“Whole brain emulation is science fiction, we’ll obviously destroy the world or something before we can implement it”
“There is a debate on whether this is useful, the main positions are [link] and [link], also totally talk to [person]”
Any chance someone can give me direction?
Thx!
(My background is in software, not biology or neurology)