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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

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Getting Root Access to Your Brain Will Enable New Forms of Joy

I think getting root access to your own brain will enable new forms of joy that we don't have now. I would like to keep one version which is basically human like I am now but you know keep the dial to turn pain up and down and get rid of death right then make another version which fuses its mind with super human AGI and then become massively transhuman. What whether it will send some messages back to the human me or not is will be interesting to find out once you're super in a super AGI. We may well be at a bifurcation point now where what we do now has significant causal impact on what comes about.

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