My guess is that it would be very hard to get to millions of connections, so maybe we agree, but I’m curious if you have more specific info. Why is it not the bottleneck though?
I’m not a neuroscientist / cognitive scientist, but my impression is that rapid eye movements are already much faster than my conscious deliberation. Intuitively, this means there’s already a lot of potential communication / control / measurement bandwidth left on the table. There is definitely a point beyond which you can’t increase human intelligence without effectively adding more densely connected neurons or uploading and increasing clock speed. Honestly I don’t think I’m equipped to go deeper into the details here.
You’re talking about a handful of people, so the benefit can’t be that large.
I’m not sure I agree with either part of this sentence. If we had some really excellent intelligence augmentation software built into AR glasses we might boost on the order of thousands of people. Also I think the top 0.1% of people contribute a large chunk of economic productivity—say on the order of >5%.
I’m not a neuroscientist / cognitive scientist, but my impression is that rapid eye movements are already much faster than my conscious deliberation. Intuitively, this means there’s already a lot of potential communication / control / measurement bandwidth left on the table. There is definitely a point beyond which you can’t increase human intelligence without effectively adding more densely connected neurons or uploading and increasing clock speed. Honestly I don’t think I’m equipped to go deeper into the details here.
I’m not sure I agree with either part of this sentence. If we had some really excellent intelligence augmentation software built into AR glasses we might boost on the order of thousands of people. Also I think the top 0.1% of people contribute a large chunk of economic productivity—say on the order of >5%.
I’m talking about neuron-neuron bandwith. https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2022/11/prosthetic-connectivity.html
I agree that neuron-computer bandwidth has easier ways to improve it—but I don’t think that bandwidth matters very much.
Personally I’m unlikely to increase my neuron-neuron bandwidth anytime soon, sounds like a very risky intervention even if possible.