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The minds of enhanced people
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Just wanted to add something to the last point RE IA-scripts running in an exoself. I imagine that a common implementation of this technology from a user perspective is for a sophont to download an IA-package and first activate its "generalist" function. This feature is a jack-of-all trades intelligent program, over time it monitors the user's thought patterns and knowledge levels and begins to intervene. From the user perspective this would be an odd sensation; over minutes-months they'd notice how much easier they are finding it to come up with solutions to problems. Complex answers easily seem to unravel in their mind and when they make conclusions based on that further solutions also come easy. This is of course the program guiding their thoughts, pushing them down the right routes in the phase-space of solutions and away from bad ones.

Beyond the generalist function specific ad-ons could be downloaded for certain problems. This might be as broad as "social interaction" or as narrow and esoteric as "Old Nipponese semantic compiler for recent-experience-inspired haiku creation". In any case collecting more ad-ons will let a user more easily discern patterns and work through solutions in a given application. There maybe trade offs in using some ad-on modules over others but also beneficial synergistic effects of combing otherwise unrelated ad-ons.

However there is a downside to this: there may be conflicts between patterns or different "brands" of ad-on. In the current era in civilised spaces the risks will be well characterised and "Best Practice Protocols" so well advanced and baked in that user's are protected. But earlier in the timeline, in more hazardous areas or in individual situations with sophonts ignoring warnings (perhaps willing to accept some side-effects in return for an intelligence boon) IA could be quite dangerous. The dangers could be quite varied; full on mental collapse, irrational interpretations of reality (e.g. Applying the intentional stance to the weather and then drafting complex legal claims against storms for noise level violations) and even all the way up to perversions and blights.
OA Wish list:
  1. DNI
  2. Internal medical system
  3. A dormbot, because domestic chores suck!
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The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-11-2016, 01:43 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-11-2016, 01:50 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-11-2016, 01:59 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-11-2016, 02:39 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-11-2016, 05:26 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by stevebowers - 11-11-2016, 09:17 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-12-2016, 06:35 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-13-2016, 01:40 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by selden - 11-12-2016, 10:57 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-13-2016, 01:46 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 04:04 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-13-2016, 08:59 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 05:56 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 08:50 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-13-2016, 09:12 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-14-2016, 01:39 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Avengium - 11-14-2016, 09:48 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-14-2016, 09:52 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-15-2016, 12:39 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by QwertyYerty - 11-15-2016, 01:01 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-15-2016, 01:18 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-16-2016, 06:14 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-15-2016, 10:34 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by selden - 11-16-2016, 08:47 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-16-2016, 01:00 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by stevebowers - 11-16-2016, 09:10 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Jordanes - 09-21-2019, 08:53 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 09-23-2019, 11:03 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-17-2016, 06:18 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-17-2016, 06:22 AM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Drashner1 - 11-17-2016, 01:08 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Bear - 11-17-2016, 01:41 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by Rynn - 11-17-2016, 07:33 PM
RE: The minds of enhanced people - by stevebowers - 09-24-2019, 08:44 PM

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