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Daniel Nest's avatar

The premise of bypassing verbal communication and just directly connecting your brains to exchange ideas is one of the long-term motivations for Neurolink, according to Elon Musk. (I wish someone could communicate how to be a decent human being directly to his brain, but let's stick to realistic and achievable goals here.)

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I just finished a book where ‘mindspeech’ was a thing and the protagonist manages to teach it to another character (who speaks another language) but it’s tricky and stuff still gets muddled. I think even communicating without words we are different enough that it’ll be problematic; ask Spock.

Something interesting about Elon/Neuralink is that humans communicate really s l o w compared to computers. Speaking is faster than typing but even then we’re like an old 14K modem to a modern computer, so communicating with computers via a direct link means they might not get bored and just kill us all waiting for us to finish a thought

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