7:03 PM ”A Friend”: I like Kurweil’s idea
7:04 PM he’s kind of a salesman for it
this blog of his is good
7:05 PM absolutely man will combine his body with machines to a ridic extent
already happening
google in your hand
next in your glasses
sorry I was at dinner last night
plus this http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/sexual-favors-chicken-mcnuggets.html
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7:40 PM me: haha man declined the offer
7:41 PM yeah kurzweil is fascinating
if he’s right with the exponential advance (and previous data does show that trend), i think he’s very likely right and right around 2029 we’ll hit the point where our machines are smarter than us and become creators themselves
7:43 PM ”A Friend”: I’m ok with that
7:44 PM me: me too
i’m looking forward to uploading my brain to the internet and floating out in cyberspace till I get deleted cuz i’m an old unused program
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7:59 PM ”A Friend”: ha
8:04 PM I would totally augment my body
an iphone connected to my skull
I’m down
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8:17 PM me: yeah
8:18 PM full google API feed 24/7
thats a wet dream
+ statistics & mathematics packages
instantly calculate anything
expanded memory – instantly see full video/audio/smell/other sensory data from any moment in your life
8:19 PM be able to email those memories to other people
crime disappears instantly
actually, could you imagine if you had that connected up and then lost it? I bet you would feel incredibly alone & sad…
8:20 PM our dull senses and problematic bodies prevent us from achieving higher levels of life
“A Friend”: totally agree
8:21 PM I’m interested in taking drugs to enhance my intelligence
I look forward to the day where for $10 a day
you can increase your IQ by 30 points
8:22 PM I will consider messing around with this myself once I make my first million
figure out a brain cocktail
adderall plus cutting age other shit
me: i’m much more interested in discovering how to interface robotics, AI & data feeds directly with my own mind. I want to massively increase my memory, logical processing abilities, ability to share direct experiences, advance technology by directly interfacing with other augmented brains.
8:23 PM i think the potential will be here in 20-40 years
“A Friend”: I don’t know how much my mind can take advantage of that right onw
now
me: i want my company to be at the cutting edge of it
“A Friend”: there will be limitations
me: i want to earn cash in services & products
to get something like this
could you imagine if you were the inventor of direct brain interfacing technology????
bigger than apple, microsoft, ford, GE… any other company in history.
8:24 PM think about how much faster technology is getting now
how much faster companies can grow
it took rockefeller a lifetime to build his fortune
Mark zuckerberg is 27
the google guys started less than a decade and a half ago
8:25 PM Gates built it & retired in three decades
now a silly ass coupon site was the fastest growing company in history in terms of revenue for their first two years
imagine a company with a world-altering product
“A Friend”: yeah facebook will be silly soon
8:26 PM did you see my new blog?
me: yup
followed on google reader
8:27 PM btw, i don’t know if you noticed it yet, but we are already becoming obsolete
“A Friend”: how’s that?
me: my little brother josh is better with technology than me and he doesn’t even like it
his friends are epic
8:28 PM in terms of text messages sent, online content viewed, social media sharing
and quickly adapting to changes
you should play a video game with a 12 year old
its eye opening and humbling
i used to be really good myself… not remotely close anymore
doesnt matter for games
8:29 PM but there are 100x more kids today who are growign up tinkering with computer circuit boards & programming code than there were when we were kids in the 90s.
“A Friend”: yeah that’s true
me: not to mention the 3rd world countries bringing billions of people online in the last few years
8:30 PM the world is changing & life is upgrading at an exponentially increasing pace
8:31 PM in 20 years, we will both be shut down unless we can learn how to teach our companies to adapt – robots will be cleaning houses and websites will be far outdated and replaced with something else
“A Friend”: adaptation is always necessary
but becoming more so
8:32 PM me: its the power of using new generations of technology to advance to unheard/unthought of generations of technology
“A Friend”: Orting people are so fucked the don’t even know it
me: yeah… the % change that happened in the 16th century is about the same % change as we have seen in the last 5 years
if not even more exagerrated
8:33 PM look at some of these charts
http://www.businessinsider.com/human-progress-charts-2011-3#-1
8:36 PM ”A Friend”: wow
that’s mind boggling
me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PPTSuperComputersPRINT.jpg
“A Friend”: I want to take advantage of these changes
me: we sit here and think history will advance at the same rate as always before…… but that is not what the data shows
i do too
i want to get into robotics/ biology
8:37 PM neuroscience
cuz thats where the world is
is going
at a pace faster than anybody thinks
8:39 PM me: going to college at this point to try to learn a fixed subject the same way people have for 300 years strikes me as incredibly silly
8:40 PM every time i start learning a new programming language, it gets outdated in a few months and passed by something better
8:43 PM ”A Friend”: hmm
I think you have to learn how to learn
8:44 PM you also need somebody to pour on motivation in a lot of creative ways
I’m interested in education and how to do it well
it’s a tricky subject
what I would like is to create a school of elites and motivate them
open their minds
but I don’t like the thought and the drudgery of teaching the masses
8:45 PM me: i do it myself – i am self taught on everything I do on the web. i once took a class on asp.net but it was way too slow
and i got bored cuz i didn’t have a direct purpose for what i learned
for instance, i’ve just taught myself how to use google apps script
”A Friend”: nice
I’m having to learn more and more
me: and have written code for going through my salespeople’s #s
and giving me custom reports
8:46 PM beyond anything you could do with any spreadsheet function… cuz i wrote my own damned functions
want to see?
you will be impressed/ find it very useful
”A Friend”: I think making my website the first time was the best thing I could have done for myself longterm
me: yeah that was genius
u have skype?
”A Friend”: yeah
me: let me show you
skype username?