Alexandr Wang says he's waiting for Neuralink to be ready to have a kid

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Alexandr Wang discusses his reasoning for waiting to have children until technologies like Neuralink and brain-computer interfaces are more advanced. He explains that the first seven years of life are crucial for brain development and neuroplasticity, allowing children to integrate such technologies more naturally than adults.

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1Waiting for advanced tech to have kids
2Importance of early neuroplasticity
3Children's ability to integrate tech
4Adults' limitations with tech integration

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Neuralink and Brain Computer Interfaces are mentioned as technologies that the speaker is waiting for before having children. The speaker explains how these technologies could be integrated into a child's development.

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Alexandr Wang says he's waiting for Neuralink to be ready to have a kid todayin-ai.com I WANNA WAIT TO HAVE KIDS UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT HOW NEURALINK OR OTHER IT'S CALLED BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES SO OTHER WAYS FOR BRAINS TO INTERLINK WITH WITH A COMPUTER UNTIL THEY START WORKING BECAUSE SO THERE'S A FEW REASONS FOR THIS FIRST IS IN YOUR FIRST LIKE SEVEN YEARS OF LIFE YOUR BRAIN IS MORE NEUROPLASTIC THAN AT ANY OTHER POINT IN YOUR LIFE LIKE BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE SO THERE HAVE BEEN EXAMPLES WHERE YOU KNOW FOR EXAMPLE IF SOMEBODY IF A KID IS BORN LIKE YOU HAVE A NEWBORN THAT HAS CATARACTS IN THEIR EYES SO THEY CAN'T SEE THROUGH THE CATARACTS AND THEN THEY LIVE THEIR FIRST SEVEN YEARS OF THEIR LIFE WITH THOSE CATARACTS AND THEN YOU HAVE THEM REMOVED WHEN THEY'RE LIKE 8 OR 9 THEN EVEN WITH THOSE REMOVED HOW TO SEE BECAUSE THEY'RE IT'S SO IMPORTANT IN THOSE FIRST SEVEN YEARS OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO YOU'RE YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE LEARN HOW TO READ THE SIGNALS COMING OFF OF YOUR EYES AND IF YOU IF IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT UNTIL YOU'RE LIKE THEN YOU WON'T LEARN HOW TO SEE SO BECAUSE IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT YOUR NEUROPLAST YOUR NEUROPLASTICITY IS SO HIGH IN THAT EARLY STAGE OF LIFE I THINK WHEN WE GET NEURALINK AND WE OTHER TECHNOLOGIES KIDS WHO ARE BORN WITH THEM ARE GONNA LEARN HOW TO USE THEM IN LIKE CRAZY CRAZY WAYS LIKE IT'LL ACTUALLY LIKE A PART OF THEIR BRAIN IN A WAY THAT IT'LL NEVER BE TRUE FOR AN ADULT WHO GETS LIKE A NEURALINK OR WHATEVER HOOKED INTO THEIR HOOKED INTO THEIR BRAIN

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I wanna wait to have kids until we figure out until we figure out how Neuralink or other it's called brain computer interfaces. So other ways for brains to interlink with with a computer until they start working. Because so there's a few reasons for this. First is in your first like seven years of life, your brain is more neuroplastic than at any other point in your life. Like by an order of magnitude. So there have been examples where, you know, for example, if somebody if a kid is born like you have a newborn that has cataracts in their eyes. So they can't see through the cataracts and then they live their first seven years of their life with those cataracts. And then you have them removed when they're like 8 or 9. Then even with those removed, they're not gonna learn how to see because they're it's so important in those first seven years of your development that you're able to you're you're able to see, learn how to read the signals coming off of your eyes. And if you if if you don't have that until you're like 8 or 9, then you won't learn how to see. So because it's so important that your neuroplast your neuroplasticity is so high in that early stage of life. I think when we get Neuralink and we other technologies, kids who are born with them are gonna learn how to use them in like crazy ways. Like it'll actually like a part of their brain in a way that it'll never be true for an adult who gets like a Neuralink or whatever hooked into their hooked into their brain.