The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain
neuroai.science
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Nothing terrifying about _that_ title ...
Or naming one of the technologies “DREADD”
It is the British English use of the word "knobhead" ?
toward a real life neural lace
Cool, I see the health value of this. Now talk about the commercial value that has folks really excited.
chemo/optogenetics have been used for decades to erase memories, change valence of memories, generate memories .... usually fear memories .. in mice.
"VCs in the US are too big now — only social media (prev) or Al (now) have the scale they want."
I agree.