I am not remotely qualified to understand whether or not the technical claims about NV centers are correct.
On the margins (given what we understand about neurology today), it is probably true that brain interpretability research will have positive effects. I think these positive effects are second or third order compared to a much scarier first order trend of (a nontrivial amount of probability mass on) vastly negative effects in the longer run.
I think I would be willing to trade away the medical advances we might get from interpretability of small brain circuits in order to shift probability mass away from a future where the state data of a live human brain can... (read more)
I am not remotely qualified to understand whether or not the technical claims about NV centers are correct.
On the margins (given what we understand about neurology today), it is probably true that brain interpretability research will have positive effects. I think these positive effects are second or third order compared to a much scarier first order trend of (a nontrivial amount of probability mass on) vastly negative effects in the longer run.
I think I would be willing to trade away the medical advances we might get from interpretability of small brain circuits in order to shift probability mass away from a future where the state data of a live human brain can... (read more)