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Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by phendrenad2 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:33PM (#30718180)
My brain is already connected to a supercomputer, but the interface speed is very slow (keyboard/mouse/hands/eyes). If I had a neural connection, I could probably train my brain to write one piece of code while squashing simple programming errors in another, at the same time.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by spansoa on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:22PM (#30714912)
Download every repo on Sourceforge and Github and create a hyper-intelligent AI that is hell-bent on traversing the Universe, even at the expense of human lives, so that the light of consciousness never gets put out.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:15PM (#30715964)
Kill humans so that "the light of consciousness never gets put out"? That's... a rather twisted moral compass, there.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by kfrzcode on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:47PM (#30717476)
A moral compass is no match for cosmic omnipresence.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by Dracophoenix on Friday March 18, 2022 @12:06AM (#30718648)
I think this is supposed to be a reference to Asimov's "The Last Question" rather than a serious answer.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by doublerabbit on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:51PM (#30714584)
Step backwards throughout my life and watch the outcomes that came to be if I chose A instead of B and vice versa. Then carry out what happened in the opposite in the present thas creating infinity.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by Phileosopher on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:10PM (#30714789)
Scan for hardware errors and reroute as needed. Then, defrag all stray neural clusters.

Once I've got bare metal, I'd consider what my OS options are and check for upgrades. I might even be able to run Windows 11!

Then, I'd check the cybersecurity policies in place, probably VM inside a VM just for fun.

After that, I'd probably get to some light evening reading over the entire works of that Bill Shakspeare guy who keeps getting ripped off.

Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by nyx on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:32PM (#30715567)
Not exactly the same question, but I think this fictional Wikipedia article is persuasive on this sort of topic: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo Won't spoil it, but it's definitely worth a read.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by kfrzcode on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:55PM (#30717540)
> [...] ultimately discovered to have been attributable to misconfigured simulated haptic links, and was shut down after only 7 minutes and 15 seconds of virtual elapsed time, as requested by MMAcevedo. Nevertheless, the experiment was deemed an overwhelming success.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by me_me_mu_mu on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:24PM (#30715491)
I’m not saying specifics but let’s just say some people will not be happy. And that’s okay.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:30PM (#30715550)
Disconnect it.

Being connected to a supercomputer solves exactly zero of my needs, wants, or desires.

Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by s-t-876 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:50PM (#30715184)
there are way too many things I want to do if this was safe and possible but probably the first thing is to get a direct contact with NASA and start working on better imaging of exoplanets, I would spend most of my other time on the most difficult/ near impossible science problems and see how many I could solve and at what rate per day.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by politelemon on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:58PM (#30714668)
Install Doom.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by vimy on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:58PM (#30716793)
Transfer one cent from every bank account on earth to mine.
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by stevenalowe on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:59PM (#30716799)
Reboot
Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha... by moltke on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:21PM (#30714900)
Make sure the supercomputer is running free software.