The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?