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Card #c908IR // #c908Synthesis

One path to superintelligence skips inventing minds from scratch: scan a human brain at fine enough resolution, simulate it, then run the simulation faster and copy it endlessly. The result starts with human-like motivations - including all our flaws - but freed from biology's speed limits and copy restrictions.

— In our words · Source: Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom)

[Use when]

Considering paths to AI that do not go through machine learning scaling.

[Why it matters]

A neuromorphic superintelligence inherits human drives rather than alien ones, which changes the alignment problem from teaching it values to managing an amplified, copyable human.

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