Expensive, but could be a way to diagnose some conditions, and AGI timelines might be short enough to make this matter… (The most important thing s can do is do all we can to make human brains suck less - even eliezer yudkowsky strongly believes this)
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Here is my rested-state SPECT scan via Amen Clinics San Francisco Bay Area along with a key result of my Full Body Intelligence test via Viome
In my SPECT scan, notice the hyperactivity in the Basil Ganglia and activation of my Thalmus (all highly dependent on adequate bioavailability of GABA and serotonin for nominal regulation).
With these tests and scans, along with aggressive self-education to fashion a modicum of domain expertise, I have come to establish the understanding that I have systemic GABA, serotonin and dopamine deficiencies which has contributed / caused an array of seeming mental health related ailments. I’ve now been able to calibrate and subsequently leverage precision supplementation + neuromedicine to remedy this.
All it took was $7,000.00+, several months to actually schedule and undergo these procedures, weeks to wait for the raw data to be sent in a CD-ROM, an external optical drive (Apple actually just discontinued theirs), teaching myself how to read medical imaging scans, fine-tuning Llama 3 for neuroscientific applications to aid in domain-specific knowledge curation, dodging the plethora of powerful psychotropic medications “experts” were urging me to ingest, and years of basically being like “WTF is wrong?”
If you are in any sort of mental health crisis, you’re either institutionalized or God forbid in some cases, decided to unalive yourself, well before any of the above can even be commenced.
This is the problem I’m trying to solve. Our brains are literally how we perceive reality. Getting access to its activity and functioning on a granular level is paramount, just like how we now have democratized purview over the rest of our vitals (heart rate, blood oxygen, etc.)
Consumer neurotech, specifically BCIs, is quickly becoming a saturated market. To not make the neural data gleaned from these devices actionable (and in conjunction with brain imaging) is lunacy to me.