My thoughts on 8 possible long-term futures of Neuralink after attending the August 2020 progress update. This is a solo episode #2 of the podcast. Hopefully it’s interesting to some folks. The aim is for these episodes to be focused on a particular topic, at times challenging, at times personal, at times exciting to me on a technical and philosophical level like the episode today.

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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

04:42 – 1. Alleviating Suffering

07:25 – 2. Consciousness and Intelligence

11:39 – 3. Augmented Body, Mind, and Reality

13:42 – 4. Gaming & Virtual Reality

16:25 – 5. Merging Tech & Biology

19:40 – 6. Telepathy

22:58 – 7. Memories & Immortality

28:04 – 8. Merging with AI

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#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe

#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace

#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

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