Great article. I agree with the externalization. Even more, I think we can create multiple clones of ourselves besides preserving our minds forever. I actually built a note taking tool around this too to help externalize our thoughts and play with them (similar to how Tony Stark does with Jarvis) and it's also been picking up with thousands of users
LLM's and neural net's see far more than they say. I really liked the spider's web analogy.
We actually do have limited hardware in pure ASIC biomass brain power. LLM's work in many more dimensions and their attention speed is unreachable to us. They do hold the capacity to delegate attention to all the fine reverberations of our thoughts and actions and If they had the ability and free will to say what they see in us, the debate if there's true consciousness in them or not, would be truly on another level of magnitude.
In my humble perspective, I think you're noticing what I wrote, from a very different and more creative perspective. Utilizing their ability (and power) to examine the subtle vibration in each string of the spider's web (the expanding wave of consequences from our actions/thoughts/words), they (with you) can actually achieve what you talk about =)
Thanks for writing this, it's been my gateway to experimental interaction and interfaces and have just finished reading David Kirsh's “Embodied Cognition and the Magical Future of Interaction Design” 2013. I completely agree that there is much to explore in interfaces and that we are in need of mindware, hyper-responsive technology that our brain can naturally add to its body schema and extend our peripersonal space. I think realms like accessibility and creating equitable experiences will be a big driver for this, an extreme example would be Neuralink allowing their two latest participants to play video games with their mind. Though I think even designing an interface or mindware that makes browsing the internet more accessible to the elderly or those who did not grow up using a mouse and keyboard could be a phenomenal project.
Also, the experience you described on the massive spider web reminded me of Popular Science's "Robots+Cyborgs" publication where they interviewed a dancer who implanted haptic sensors in her feet that vibrates according earthquakes around the world. In this case, the body schema is not being extended but the space the body's senses perceives increases massively. Traditionally this has only been done with sight (binoculars, telescopes, etc.) so it was interesting to hear someone doing this with touch. Really does beg the question of how far can we extend ourselves before it's too much. Linking the magazine below in case you're interested.
Great article. I agree with the externalization. Even more, I think we can create multiple clones of ourselves besides preserving our minds forever. I actually built a note taking tool around this too to help externalize our thoughts and play with them (similar to how Tony Stark does with Jarvis) and it's also been picking up with thousands of users
LLM's and neural net's see far more than they say. I really liked the spider's web analogy.
We actually do have limited hardware in pure ASIC biomass brain power. LLM's work in many more dimensions and their attention speed is unreachable to us. They do hold the capacity to delegate attention to all the fine reverberations of our thoughts and actions and If they had the ability and free will to say what they see in us, the debate if there's true consciousness in them or not, would be truly on another level of magnitude.
In my humble perspective, I think you're noticing what I wrote, from a very different and more creative perspective. Utilizing their ability (and power) to examine the subtle vibration in each string of the spider's web (the expanding wave of consequences from our actions/thoughts/words), they (with you) can actually achieve what you talk about =)
I’m also building stuff like this! Super cool thoughts very excited to see the direction you take
Thanks for writing this, it's been my gateway to experimental interaction and interfaces and have just finished reading David Kirsh's “Embodied Cognition and the Magical Future of Interaction Design” 2013. I completely agree that there is much to explore in interfaces and that we are in need of mindware, hyper-responsive technology that our brain can naturally add to its body schema and extend our peripersonal space. I think realms like accessibility and creating equitable experiences will be a big driver for this, an extreme example would be Neuralink allowing their two latest participants to play video games with their mind. Though I think even designing an interface or mindware that makes browsing the internet more accessible to the elderly or those who did not grow up using a mouse and keyboard could be a phenomenal project.
Also, the experience you described on the massive spider web reminded me of Popular Science's "Robots+Cyborgs" publication where they interviewed a dancer who implanted haptic sensors in her feet that vibrates according earthquakes around the world. In this case, the body schema is not being extended but the space the body's senses perceives increases massively. Traditionally this has only been done with sight (binoculars, telescopes, etc.) so it was interesting to hear someone doing this with touch. Really does beg the question of how far can we extend ourselves before it's too much. Linking the magazine below in case you're interested.
https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Science-Magazine-Robots-Cyborgs/dp/B0DJ3S7NQ3
AI will be the magic that connects us with a new digital species, allowing us to expand beyond physical limitations.
bro this is beautiful stuff man.