self-destruction - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind
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my entirely self-inflicted problems
also on mit admissions warning: mentions of anxiety, panic attacks, heart attacks. please skip this post if you’re not feeling well ted chiang’s short story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the story’s climax, he introduces the idea of self-destruct commands - since the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to fire in response to external stimuli as well as to each other, there might be a set of input stimuli that, when perceived, causes the neurons in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word: the sentence…
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