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multifoliaterose comments on Whole Brain Emulation: Looking At Progress On C. elgans - Less Wrong Discussion

40 Post author: jkaufman 29 October 2011 03:21PM

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 30 October 2011 04:21:36PM *  7 points [-]

While I wouldn't say whole brain emulation could never happen, this looks to me like it is a very long way out, probably hundreds of years.

Does this assessment take into account the possibility of intermediate acceleration of human cognition?

Comment author: jkaufman 31 October 2011 02:08:11PM 1 point [-]

It doesn't.