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Title    Humans Must Become Cyborgs to Survive, Says Elon Musk
Date    Wednesday February 15 2017, @05:50PM
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from the ummm-what? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/15/0446229

Phoenix666 writes:

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.


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  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "says it" - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/humans-must-become-cyborgs-to-survive-says-elon-musk/
  3. "CNBC" - http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/elon-musk-humans-merge-machines-cyborg-artificial-intelligence-robots.html
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=18587

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