Why Biological Computing Feels Dystopian to an AI Practitioner
By
kuberwastaken
Plain bagel done well. Pleasantly substantive.
Summary
The author, an AI enthusiast with hands-on experience building and studying language models, expresses deep unease about biological computing—the application of AI concepts to living human neurons. While comfortable with AI as "just math and probabilities," the author finds the prospect of running similar computational processes on biological tissue profoundly dystopian and unsettling.
Key quotes
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But seeing these exact same concepts working on literal human neurons? That is so profoundly dystopian to me.
I've spent days figuring out how to map out WADs to run it as a stateless
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