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Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
(www.theverge.com)
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I like that vision of future (implants are cool, neural interfaces can be useful), but I'd also like our world to stop and think a bit at every stage.
Solve the global network (note how I'm not saying "global computer network", because I don't think so, ideally we'd still have global analog commutated channel network as the base level), web of hypertext documents, universal applications and personal computing problems sufficiently well first. Then go to brain implants.
It's like combat drones, using them with optical cables for communication is better than with radio, turns out. That's the current way.
Would be good if for computing we'd figure out ways better than war to remove delusions.
TIL Valve is into brain chips.
The Valve Deckard was a little more ambitious than had been originally anticipated.
How the hell is this not the Onion?
isn't the verge the same as the onion?
I was sure it must be. Is it not? Gosh.
Might be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I don't really see a problem with brain implants. I wouldn't put anything my brain in a thousand years, but if someone's willing to accept the risks, why not? They have the potential to significantly improve quality of life for many people.
It's exactly like AI. Could the technology be useful were it to be used in service of goals that would serve humanity? Absolutely. Will it be used by billionaires in a way that will be harmful to most people in order to further entrench their power? Most definitely.
At least some of the people developing this stuff think they're going to be able to partner AI and neural links. I think the desire is they think about the solution to a problem and then they don't have to do the work of creating it. It will just exist magically because the AI will do it.
It's egotistical bollocks that comes from believing your ideas are always right, and that a back of the napkin idea is the same as a fully engineered solution.
"Someone might abuse it" is a reasonable concern. "Therefore nobody should be allowed to use it" is not a reasonable answer to that concern, IMO. We'd never have anything with that approach.
If I lived in, say, Iain Banks's post-scarcity anarcho-communist utopia The Culture, I'd get a neural lace in a heartbeat. But living in this capitalist dystopia that most of us does, I don't trust corporations to not use this sort of technology for domination over the populace.
For perspectives on how it might go (general vibes, not the same technology) I recommend HYPER-REALITY (6 mins short film) or David Brin's Existence novel.
Continuum is a tidy lil show addressing this, too. Actually, not so tidy, a bit of a mess. But still entertaining and intriguing at times.
Another problem is abandonment. When the company goes under or the device becomes outdated and they no longer want to support it the device can't be easily removed. If the device was fixing a disability, the person's disability will be reinstated.
If it prevents or mitigates Alzheimer's, or other degenerative brain diseases, it's a good development.
At some point in humanity's future, I assume that it will be a thing and be widespread. Just too many potential benefits to having high-bandwidth links to the brain not to eventually do it.
But it's a path with a lot of hurdles along the way, and risks.
Beyond expanding the brain’s functions it can fix things like some forms of blindness
Imagine the guy at BMW who invented subscriptions for heated seats teaming up with the guy at nvidia who does drivers and youll understand why I wouldnt
If I can read your thoughts, it can change them. I guess it depends on the level of sophistication but it opens up the ONE place in the entire world that is completely yours.
Is this what were getting instead of half life 3?
HL3 brain dance confirmed.
Will we also get a control valve back on our heads?
As long as theres no wifi and its to solve medical issues, why not? Better than trusting a nazi.
When Gabe or Musk are the first people to get the implant, I'll consider it... 10 to 15 years later.
I know the internet lives the guy but no. Just no.
So this is how we're gonna get half life 3 huh
What?
#Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
Thank you. That's much clearer
Not what I asked for... But it was what I needed... My cataracts are acting up again.
If it solves my tinnitus, I'm all for it.
Thanks for reminding me of it.
You are very conscious of your breathing and there’s no comfortable place for your tongue in your mouth.
What's that about ? my tongue rests comfortably at the bottom of my mouth, as I assume most tongues do (in their respective mouths)
It’s part of a series of statements akin to “you are suddenly conscious of your breathing” that impact a subset of people vulnerable to thinking about things like this when they are pointed out. The tongue one might not work on you whereas the breathing works on most
Tinnitus is something very hard to ignore.
Depends how long you’ve had it and how severe. I’ve had it for 23 of my 27 years now, and I hear it less and less as time passes.
( had multiple ear infections as a small child )
That picture 😂
Yeah no thanks
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nice thumbnail