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Elon says it, so it must be true:
Humans must become cyborgs and develop a direct high-bandwidth connection with machines or risk irrelevance and obsolescence, says Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Musk's latest cheery thoughts were imparted at the World Government Summit in the UAE. "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk said, according to CNBC.
The main thrust of Musk's argument seems to hinge on the limited bandwidth and processing power of a single human being. Computers can ingest, transfer, and process gigabytes of data per second, every second, forever. Meatbags, however, are severely limited by an input/output rate—talking, typing, listening—that's best measured in bits per second. Thus, to risk being replaced by a robot or artificial intelligence, we need to become machines.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by looorg on Wednesday February 15 2017, @05:59PM
Elon first. Put up or STFU. I'll wait for him to do a full cyborg conversion and then I'll evaluate the results on my own and decide for myself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:23PM
Don't worry, some percentage of our successor species (call it Homo futuris for lack of a better name) "genes" will be homo sapiens.
Just like you are probably 1-8% neanderthal.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:33PM
Just like you are probably 1-8% neanderthal.
How about 99.7%?
According to preliminary sequences, 99.7% of the nucleotide sequences of the modern human and Neanderthal genomes are identical, compared to humans sharing around 98.8% of sequences with the chimpanzee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project [wikipedia.org]
Genome-wide variation from one human being to another can be up to 0.5% (99.5% similarity)
https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-human-DNA-is-shared-with-other-things [quora.com]
So, we are just as similar to Neanderthal as to each other.
PS. 60% of your DNA is the same as in a fruit fly or a chicken, so.... no idea where you get your "1-8%" from ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @07:09PM
Funny things about percents, they are relative to something.
Not the thing you thought, but perhaps the actual relative part.
You may ask your chicken part to browse the following, and bootstrap your understanding with further googling. Or perhaps, start with your neanderthal part, and get further.
https://blog.23andme.com/ancestry/find-your-inner-neanderthal/ [23andme.com]
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday February 15 2017, @08:32PM
Is that you Trump ? Interpreting reality and ignoring facts as you see fit again ?
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:49PM
Are you kidding me? Haven't you seen his jawline? He's telling us this from the other side!