Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI
Everyone is so scared of all of this, but where do you all realistically see humanity in <i>200 years? Living like we do now? I mean do you realize how different things were in </i>1817 compared to now? Unfathomable to them [1].<p>I know HN hates techno groups, but this kind of thing is not new at all to folks who consider themselves &quot;Transhumanists.&quot;<p>How is this not an obvious eventuality for everyone here? It seems pretty clear that the whole vector of humanity is to functionally merge with our engineered system in a symbiotic way and then probably see the extinction of the human species in (relatively) short order.<p>We&#x27;re gonna go extinct anyway, so what&#x27;s the alternative?<p>edit: Used a slightly different time horizon on suggestion.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1817" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1817</a>