Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain

Re:Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power... by nickpsecurity on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:59PM (#12766314)

You realize that project cost billions of dollars with insanely huge teams of smart people working with established principles of physics, chemistry, and so on rather than mostly unknowns in neuroscience?

No practical comparison between this and Apollo despite me wanting an Apollo-style effort put into certain problems we face. Including understanding the brain although maybe communications infrastructure, cheap computing, and MOOC's first. That will give us more brains for Apollo-style endeavors.

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Re:Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power... by robotresearcher on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:54PM (#12766598)

> [Apollo] cost billions of dollars

I looked it up - around $20.4B in 1960s dollars, so $160B today. $20B per mooon landing. Not counting Mercury or Gemini.

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1579/1

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Re:Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power... by nickpsecurity on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:12PM (#12766669)

Wow. Much higher than I remembered. It's like the brute force approach to getting something done except the force is sheer dollars and labor focus on one goal.

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Re:Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power... by the_watcher on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:05PM (#12780043)

Did you read the article? Where Johnson anticipates $7-10B in funding to get anything out the door? He's investing $100M of his own money to get things started. The point is that the reflexive negativity here is simply astonishing, again, given that we're all communicating via technology that, less than one century ago, would be considered pure magic.

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