The human mind has many cognitive modules that, though superficially similar and computationally similar (Kurzweil 2013) are still modules that have been evolutionarily optimized—up to a bounded constraint - for distinct functions (Tooby, Cosmides, Buss 2014, Pinker 1995, Minsky 2007).
When we tamper with the human mind with amphetamines or stimulants to make it better by making the entire thing faster, the fact that it has many systems tends to be a hindrance. People end up being motivated about the wrong things, undereating, feeling horny, angry, being mildly autistic etc…
In other words, targeted intervention becomes harder when a mind has many modules, if you goal is to have some of these modules enhanced, but some kept constant.
Stunting a human mind by throwing an anti-psychotic, tranquilizer or a sleep inducer on it, on the other hand, is very effective. The whole brain runs on a digital system of electrochemical communication: the axon’s action potential.
So drugs that paralyze or stop human intelligence do so by shutting down the communication system between modules. Seems advisable to run the whole AI with only one, slow system of communication between it’s parts.
The human mind has many cognitive modules that, though superficially similar and computationally similar (Kurzweil 2013) are still modules that have been evolutionarily optimized—up to a bounded constraint - for distinct functions (Tooby, Cosmides, Buss 2014, Pinker 1995, Minsky 2007).
When we tamper with the human mind with amphetamines or stimulants to make it better by making the entire thing faster, the fact that it has many systems tends to be a hindrance. People end up being motivated about the wrong things, undereating, feeling horny, angry, being mildly autistic etc…
In other words, targeted intervention becomes harder when a mind has many modules, if you goal is to have some of these modules enhanced, but some kept constant.
Stunting a human mind by throwing an anti-psychotic, tranquilizer or a sleep inducer on it, on the other hand, is very effective. The whole brain runs on a digital system of electrochemical communication: the axon’s action potential.
So drugs that paralyze or stop human intelligence do so by shutting down the communication system between modules. Seems advisable to run the whole AI with only one, slow system of communication between it’s parts.
Contrast this with a stroke:
A stroke destroys some of your modules, but leaves most intact. The consequences may vary from absolute impairment to impossibility of processing symbols into meanings and language
In the second stroke case, within less than two minutes, the human mind came up with a solution to dial a phone.
The takeaway lesson is to make internal communication within the AI slow, and shut it down as a whole, to the extent those are possible.