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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.
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.
thanks, I'll check it out!
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
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.
The one place i cant leave, id love to not have my shit fucked up anymore.
If it prevents or mitigates Alzheimer's, or other degenerative brain diseases, it's a good development.
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
I know the internet lives the guy but no. Just no.
Some people are starting to wake up to the fact that the guy is just another libertarian billionaire, he just happens to be in charge of a company that made a product people love enough to give them monopolistic powers.
edit: these people aren't in this thread
You’re not wrong, the downvoters are just sad because you are right. Just takes one personality shift from Gabe to turn him from beloved figurehead to shitty billionaire and being reminded of that sucks.
If you just pay attention more than the average person you quickly realize that he's already a shitty billionaire.
Steam underage gambling profits him directly.
He owns a yacht collection while his clients can't afford to own the place they live in. How's that for an environmental impact?
His reaction to George Floyd's murder wasn't that Valve should release a statement as he considered that problematic (source), instead he gave each employee 10k to spend however they felt like. Where I used to work we used to call that a "shut the fuck up". Employees are complaining about something? Here's 10k each for them to shut the fuck up. Hell, they could spend that money to finance far right groups if they wanted, Newell didn't care!
Valve takes a 30% cut but Newell is a billionaire, which means they could afford to take a much smaller cut, he could have hundreds of millions instead and the devs could have more money in their pockets.
Pretty sure Musk has had a significant shift. Not saying he started out as a nice normal guy, but something cracked for sure.
We also spend dramatically more now as well and are on an unsustainable path according to the Fed.
People want more spending and less taxes though, as its human nature.
Is this what were getting instead of half life 3?
HL3 brain dance confirmed.
So this is how we're gonna get half life 3 huh
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.
If it solves my tinnitus, I'm all for it.
Look into Lenire. First FDA-approved treatment
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 )
Yeah no thanks
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.
That picture 😂
When Gabe or Musk are the first people to get the implant, I'll consider it... 10 to 15 years later.
As long as theres no wifi and its to solve medical issues, why not? Better than trusting a nazi.
“The non WiFi versions cost more and are not supported by most insurance.”
Poor monkes 🐒
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nice thumbnail
Steam controller flash backs Pass
