[extropy-chat] Almost, but not completely, unlike A.I. or "scramble the rat fighters!"

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:21 AM 12/7/2005 -0800, Stuart wrote:

>If this is legitimate,and it is pursued, it
>singlehandedly pushes my estimated time of arrival of
>the singularity up by several decades to a mere 15
>years away. If 25,000 rat neurons interfaced to a PC
>can fly an F-22 in a hurricane, imagine what 10^12
>neurons (rat, goat, human... I don't think it matters
>although I would go with human because then we could
>appeal to its nepotism) interfaced to a Cray or a
>Blue-gene could do?

Charlie Stross projected this outcome some years ago using lobsters rather 
than rats. That story forms the opening of his singularity novel ACCELERANDO.

Damien Broderick