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I once went deep into rabbit hole of why neurotechnology progresses so slowly.

My conclusion was that it’s a chicken and egg situation. Tech advances depend on what we know about human brain and what we know about it is constrained by ethical concerns

Here’s the full write up https://notes.invertedpassion.com/Consciousness/Why+brain-ma...

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"constrained by ethical concerns" glosses over "chimps that we test on die at horrific rates" pretty hard.

if we are just chemical reactions writ in meatspace, then where's the room for "ethical considerations" except as performative nod to the illusory problem of pain and death?

/speaking sarcastically about hard materialism, of which I am simultaneously a critic but also recommend to be the universal null hypothesis

That is quite the statement, sarcasm aside. I guess I need to read more on hard materialism. These sound like folks you probably don’t want to chat with at a dinner party.

You don’t find enough hard materialists on HN?

Not many that are ethically bankrupt.

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