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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Lol that's funny! No one would actually do that to another person! We are completely safe because this degree of selfishness does not exist, that's why I can laugh at it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I think you people are vastly overestimating how much we actually know about the brain or severely underestimating how freaking complex it is.

The "you" reading this right now, is a fucking stack of six A4 sized sheets, each one nanometers thick, and crumpled into something which, by all appearances, looks to an external observer as an oversized walnut seed, cooled and maintained by a network of 400 miles capillaries, and isolated from the world by the blood brain barrier, which can only be described as a fucking miracle.

No. No one is going to be implanting any memories soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

AI is better at recognizing patterns than we are. The brain may be unfathomable to us, but technology already exists which could recognize the signals in your brain that represent memories and reproduce or alter them.

Neuralink and similar devices are being used right now, today, to record the thoughts of animals. The first neuralink patient is alive and well, meaning it's already being used on humans.

Do you really think this technology won't exist in our lifetime?

[–] [email protected] 104 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

The joke is that something Elon's companies make actually works reliably.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 hours ago

The joke is also that the burning car was a Tesla, and if Elon could, he'd push a patch to copy/paste his face onto any memories of firefighters found in a Neuralink customer's brain

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I was gonna say Tesla but he actually bought that company, and it doesn't do as well anymore

[–] [email protected] 45 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I'd be on board with Neuralink.... if Musk wasn't behind it.

Think I"ll wait for an open source brain chip

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I'd even trust a fully local open source one.

The issues about trusting hardware and software development tools all lead to problems here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah if a bug or a hardware failure can make me see nightmare spiders everywhere or send a signal to my pain centers, that's a permanent no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, basically IRL plot of Snow Crash.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It is a really interesting, very scary technology that requires a solid institutional foundation to provide trust. Musk degrades trust, he doesn't build it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

His maga fanboys would ram a rusty nail into their skull if he tells them it's the hot new shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Sounds like he doesn't need to give them neuralink, then.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Actual augments like this will never work if they phone home to do their job. There could be massive benefits to people with a huge variety of conditions and interests, but if it's corpo ware and isn't hyper protected by medical review, and long term support, it's junk

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Just play Deus Ex to see the potential ramifications. That and I know things go to the lowest bidder and I know what developers are like….

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

One of many futuristic "dystopias" that actually ended up being far too optimistic compared to reality.

"This plague...the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it."

"Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they'll beg us to save them."

Reality: "In the end they'll refuse to be vaccinated anyway."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Saw an interview with Warren Spector where he said if he was making Deus Ex today, it would be completely different, since the game they made back then would look like a documentary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Cyberpunk dystopias are depressing because we have all of the bad stuff (corporations running everything) and none of the cool stuff (cybernetic augments).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Okay so for anyone who’s played outer worlds I could see this sort of plot being central to outer worlds 2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably not, since

Tap for spoilerStarfield
did the whole mind control implant thing already

Any way to do a spoiler tag without the line break in Lemmy btw?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean so did

Tap for spoilerCyberpunk 2077
that doesn't mean obsidian can't also write their own brain control sidequest or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Idunno.. I bet

Tap for spoilerBethesda

is much more litigious than

Tap for spoilerCD Projekt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I dunno. I bet

tap for spoilersMicrosoft

Isn't going to sue

tap for spoilersMicrosoft

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I think

Tap for spoilerYou're right