{"id":3548,"date":"2010-09-26T04:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T04:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2010-09-26T04:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T04:40:34","slug":"tinkering-our-way-to-the-singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"Tinkering our Way to the Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial savants? Savant augmentation? The path to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mentat\">mentats<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p width=\"640\" height=\"390\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"height\" value=\"390\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"640\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NYAfmyMZe5g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"390\" width=\"640\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NYAfmyMZe5g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p width=\"640\" height=\"390\">Imagine the effects of \u00a0fine-tuning this crude stimulation with precision, then additionally\u00a0doing &#8220;x&#8221;so as to\u00a0amplify the remaining abilities, not simply\u00a0suppress the contraindicative cognitive process.<\/p>\n<p width=\"640\" height=\"390\">Now imagine the potential effects of doing it on a systemic, societal,\u00a0basis for a generation or two.<\/p>\n<p width=\"640\" height=\"390\">Hat tip to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/lurking-genius-untapped-savant-ability.html\">The Eide Neurolearning Blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial savants? Savant augmentation? The path to mentats? Imagine the effects of \u00a0fine-tuning this crude stimulation with precision, then additionally\u00a0doing &#8220;x&#8221;so as to\u00a0amplify the remaining abilities, not simply\u00a0suppress the contraindicative cognitive process. Now imagine the potential effects of doing it on a systemic, societal,\u00a0basis for a generation or two. Hat tip to The Eide Neurolearning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,487,24,21,109,37,388,47,462,436,32,381,282,220,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-brain","category-cognition","category-creativity","category-eide","category-futurism","category-innovation","category-intelligence","category-metacognition","category-psychology","category-science","category-society","category-superempowered-individuals","category-tech","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}