Richard Sutton
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, if you really could just get information from anywhere and bring it into your central mind, you could become more and more powerful.
And it's all digital and they all speak some internal digital language.
Maybe it'll be easy and possible, but...
it will not be that easy, as easy as you're imagining, because you can lose your mind this way.
If you pull in something from the outside and build it into your inner thinking, it could take over you.
It could change you.
It could be your destruction rather than your increment in knowledge.
I think this will become a big concern, particularly when you're, oh, he's figured all about how to play some new game or figured out he studied Indonesia and you want to incorporate that into your mind.
Yeah.
So you think, oh, just read it all in.
And that'll be fine.
But no, you've just read a whole bunch of bits into your mind.
And they could have viruses in them.
They could have hidden goals.
They can warp you and change you.
And this will become a big thing.
How do you have cybersecurity in the age of digital spawning and reforming again?
Yeah, so I do think succession to digital or digital intelligence or augmented humans is inevitable.
So the argument, I have a four part argument.
Step one is,