Tsvi B. T. (TSVIBT)

We have metal, wires, radios, basically unlimited electric and metabolic power, reliable high-quality nutrition, mechanical cooling devices, etc.

Given our resources, some properties that would have been disadvantages are no longer major disadvantages.

For example, a higher metabolic cost is barely a meaningful cost.

We have different values from evolution.

We might want to trade away IGF to gain intelligence.

That's the end of the list.

We can test interventions and see what works.

We can think about what, mechanically, the brain needs in order to function well.

There are 7 billion natural experiments, just running around doing stuff.

We can observe the behaviors of the humans and learn what circumstances of their creation leads to fewer or more cognitive capabilities.

We can see what human evolution invested in, aimed at cognitive capabilities, and add more of that.

Method.

Figure out how neurons work, scan human brains, make a simulation of a scanned brain, and then use software improvements to make the brain think better.

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The idea is to have a human brain, but with the advantages of being in a computer.

Faster processing, more scalable hardware, more introspectable, for example read access to all internals, even if they are obscured.

Computation traces, reproducible computations, A, E, B testing components or other tweaks, low-level optimisable, process forking.

This is a to-figure-it-out-ourselves method, we'd have to figure out what makes the emulated brain smarter.

Subheading.

Problems.