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…What are your thoughts on sort of Cyborg ISM? This is prominently featured I think in Kurzweil's vision. It's also why Elon started Neurolink, you know, so we can go along for the ride. Do you hope to merge with silicon based intelligences yourself at some point? Yeah, so, you know, again, there's a lot of nuance here, but the first order answer is 100% absolutely yes. I will be, you know, I'll, I'll, I will be not the first in line, but you know, after, after maybe 10 or 20 others, like I might be pretty close to the first in line to get uploaded, you know, once, once the Super intelligence develops sufficient nanotech for that to be viable. I don't think that Neuralink strategy is cruxy for alignment. So that's the second order kind of interpretation of your question. For Elon, the merge is really important because that's how that's how humanity gets into the machines that you know, that they're not just being steered by alien values that kind of recursively self improve in a bad way. For me, I would say if you have the prior that there are alien values that are just different and not merely within the same basin of attraction, having a brain computer interface is not gonna help. Like if anything, it will cause you as a human to adopt the alien values. So if the thing that you want is to preserve human values in a sea of other coherent systems that are different, you should not be pro BCI. You should maybe be pro some form of like Centaur or, or sort of, you know, human, human owned agent swarm culture. And I think this is viable, you know, at at at at least for a few years, probably for 10 or 20 years. I think they're gonna be powerful people who maintain power by having, you know, ultimate root authority over 1,000,000 geniuses in a data center who are in service of that person. But that's not, you know, that's not where their alignment is going to be coming from. It's sort of the other way around. They're going to stay in service because they're aligned. So in your positive vision of the future, just going back to this question of like, how different do you think things will be? Obviously you're talking, you know, drastic differences for sure. But if we Fast forward 100 years and we imagine or not imagine we face these AI successors that have recursively self improved from this kind of starting point of being in our benevolent wisdom basin. Do you think we will look at them and see Cousins or?…

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