Manolis Kellis

The ability to understand and comprehend our own genome, again, the ultimate layer of introspection, gives us now the ability to even mess with this hardware, not just augment our capabilities through interacting and collaborating with AI,

but also perhaps understand the neural pathways that are necessary for empathetic thinking, for justice, for this and this and that, and sort of help augment human capabilities through neuronal interventions, through chemical interventions, through electrical interventions, to basically help steer the human bag of hardware that we kind of evolved with into

greater capabilities.

And then ultimately, by understanding not just the wiring of neurons and the functioning of neurons, but even the genetic code, we could even at one point in the future start thinking about, well, can we get rid of psychiatric disease?

Can we get rid of neurodegeneration?

Can we get rid of dementia?

And start perhaps even augmenting human capabilities, not just getting rid of disease.

I wouldn't want to get rid of the baggage, the baggage of what makes us awesome.

So the fact that I'm sometimes angry and sometimes hungry and sometimes hangry,

is perhaps contributing to my creativity.

I don't want to be dispassionate.

I don't want to be another, like, you know, robot.

I, you know, I want to get in trouble and I want to sort of say the wrong thing.

And I want to sort of, you know, make an awkward comment and sort of push myself into, you know, reactions and responses and things that can get just people thinking differently.

And

I think our society is moving towards a humorless space where everybody's so afraid to say the wrong thing that people kind of start quitting en masse and start not liking their jobs and stuff like that.

Maybe we should be kind of embracing that human aspect a little bit more in all of that baggage aspect.

and not necessarily thinking about replacing it.

On the contrary, like embracing it and sort of this coexistence of the cognitive and the emotional hardwares.

Yeah.