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Re:Neuralink Live Stream [video] by RomanBob on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:13AM (#20456395)
>problem is making a brain-computer interface so that we can have a fighting chance when AI takes off.

our fighting chance is EMP.

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Re:Neuralink Live Stream [video] by natosaichek on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @02:40AM (#20457079)
That's like saying a lions chance against humans is the big teeth. It's dangerous in a particular context, sure, but misses the fundamental assymmetry that took humans from scared or lions to existential threat to lions.
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Re:Neuralink Live Stream [video] by onemoresoop on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:38AM (#20456513)
what is EMP?
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Re:Neuralink Live Stream [video] by scottlegrand2 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:42AM (#20456530)
Apparently Paul Allen's Experience Music Project has been a secret weapon against malevolent AIs all along!

Or if you're no fun, it's an electromagnetic pulse.

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Re:Neuralink Live Stream [video] by hollerith on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:42AM (#20456527)
An electromagnetic pulse, created when a nuclear bomb explodes, that some say will destroy all electronic devices within hundreds of miles that haven't been specifically designed to be EMP resistant.
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