For Section 2.5 (C. elegans), @davidad is simultaneously hopeful about a human upload moonshot (cf. the post from yesterday) and intimately familiar with C. elegans uploading stuff (having been personally involved). And he’s a pretty reasonable guy IMO. So the inference “c. elegans stuff therefore human uploads are way off” is evidently less of a slam dunk inference than you seem to think it is. (As I mentioned in the post, I don’t know the details, and I hope I didn’t give a misleading impression there.)
I’m confused by your last sentence; how does that connect to the rest of your comment? (What I personally actually expect is that, if there are uploads at all, it would be via the reverse-engineering route, where we would not have to “change random bits”.)
My second sentence meant “If neurology AI can do WBE, a slightly (on a grand scale) more superhuman AI could do it without reverse engineering.”. But actually we could just have the AI reverse-engineer the brain, then obfuscate the upload, then delete the AI.
Suppose the company gets bought and they try to improve the upload’s performance without understanding it. My third sentence meant, would they find that the Algernon argument applies to uploads?
For Section 2.5 (C. elegans), @davidad is simultaneously hopeful about a human upload moonshot (cf. the post from yesterday) and intimately familiar with C. elegans uploading stuff (having been personally involved). And he’s a pretty reasonable guy IMO. So the inference “c. elegans stuff therefore human uploads are way off” is evidently less of a slam dunk inference than you seem to think it is. (As I mentioned in the post, I don’t know the details, and I hope I didn’t give a misleading impression there.)
I’m confused by your last sentence; how does that connect to the rest of your comment? (What I personally actually expect is that, if there are uploads at all, it would be via the reverse-engineering route, where we would not have to “change random bits”.)
Oh, okay.
My second sentence meant “If neurology AI can do WBE, a slightly (on a grand scale) more superhuman AI could do it without reverse engineering.”. But actually we could just have the AI reverse-engineer the brain, then obfuscate the upload, then delete the AI.
Suppose the company gets bought and they try to improve the upload’s performance without understanding it. My third sentence meant, would they find that the Algernon argument applies to uploads?