🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

@Varyk Kurzweil thought we’d all be quasi-cyborgs on 2 wheels by now.

@Soyweiser @sneerclub It is not possible to understand neuroscience using a “hardware/software” paradigm. That is a model created by humans to make building working computers possible. Brains develop without any such abstraction constraining the process.

@Starseeder @sneerclub That article is a powerful argument for professional editing.
(I do not mean that its topical content makes any such argument.)

@henfredemars Indeed, it is often associated with hydrocephalus, a condition rarely conducive to cognitive performance.

@Soyweiser It was a bigger theme earlier: 50s/60s. Asimov, Bradbury, and I think Heinlein all used it.

@Amoeba_Girl @sneerclub Is that why it is so repetitive, wandering, and tedious?

@Soyweiser Not as a primary focus, but as a background fact, e.g. Trantor in Foundation.

@TinyTimmyTokyo Amphetamine (and related stimulant) psychosis is a well-characterized syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis

@istewart @sneerclub One thing Andreessen, Thiel, et al. have shown a real skill for is finding ways to use a LOT of computing power. Even if only as effective debtors-in-possession, I’m sure they’ll figure something out.

@dgerard I have a strong recollection that Keith Henson had intimate involvement with a cryonics project and actual published a rather harrowing account. Should be searchable.