Entries for August 2024

A failure scenario for AI infrastructure under scale

/2024/08/28
Imagine the following scenario: 1. We develop brain-scan technology today which can take a perfect snapshot of anyone’s brain, down to the atomic level. You undergo this procedure after you die and your brain scan is kept in some fault-tolerant storage, along the lines of GitHub Arctic Code Vault. 2. But sufficiently cheap real-time brain emulation technology takes considerably longer to develop—say 1000 years i...

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