Re:Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. Wha...
by phendrenad2 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:33PM
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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
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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 doublerabbit on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:51PM
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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 nyx on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:32PM
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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
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> [...] 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 s-t-876 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:50PM
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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.
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.
Being connected to a supercomputer solves exactly zero of my needs, wants, or desires.