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Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. What do you do next?

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My brain is already connected to a supercomputer, but the interface speed is very slow (keyboard/mouse/hands/eyes). If I had a neural connection, I could probably train my brain to write one piece of code while squashing simple programming errors in another, at the same time.

Download every repo on Sourceforge and Github and create a hyper-intelligent AI that is hell-bent on traversing the Universe, even at the expense of human lives, so that the light of consciousness never gets put out.

Kill humans so that "the light of consciousness never gets put out"? That's... a rather twisted moral compass, there.

A moral compass is no match for cosmic omnipresence.

I think this is supposed to be a reference to Asimov's "The Last Question" rather than a serious answer.

Step backwards throughout my life and watch the outcomes that came to be if I chose A instead of B and vice versa. Then carry out what happened in the opposite in the present thas creating infinity.

Scan for hardware errors and reroute as needed. Then, defrag all stray neural clusters.

Once I've got bare metal, I'd consider what my OS options are and check for upgrades. I might even be able to run Windows 11!

Then, I'd check the cybersecurity policies in place, probably VM inside a VM just for fun.

After that, I'd probably get to some light evening reading over the entire works of that Bill Shakspeare guy who keeps getting ripped off.

Not exactly the same question, but I think this fictional Wikipedia article is persuasive on this sort of topic: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo Won't spoil it, but it's definitely worth a read.

> [...] ultimately discovered to have been attributable to misconfigured simulated haptic links, and was shut down after only 7 minutes and 15 seconds of virtual elapsed time, as requested by MMAcevedo. Nevertheless, the experiment was deemed an overwhelming success.

I’m not saying specifics but let’s just say some people will not be happy. And that’s okay.

Disconnect it.

Being connected to a supercomputer solves exactly zero of my needs, wants, or desires.

there are way too many things I want to do if this was safe and possible but probably the first thing is to get a direct contact with NASA and start working on better imaging of exoplanets, I would spend most of my other time on the most difficult/ near impossible science problems and see how many I could solve and at what rate per day.

Install Doom.

Transfer one cent from every bank account on earth to mine.

Reboot

Make sure the supercomputer is running free software.

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