some of Google’s projects are reproducing high-level quirks of the human visual cortex.
While the work that the visual cortex does is complex and hard to crack (from where we are now), it doesn’t seem like being able to replicate that leads to AGI. Is there a reason I should think otherwise?
I get the sense that many of the people who have signed up have done it less for the increased survival chances or the sense of comfort, but as a sort of flag waving. It is pretty good signalling that you are opposed to death and part of the ingroup that is opposed to death. Those little medallions are badges of a refusal to submit to the awful thing.