Technology

Over my dead body.

Also, this is laughable:

We’re on the cusp of the next major transition, the merger of humans and AI.

These guys don't even have true AI yet, just a text predictor on steroids that frequently hallucinates and gets things wrong.

AI CEO D. Scott Phoenix laid out a vision of a world in which the chipped enjoy so many advantages of the unchipped that you’ll be forced to comply.

I won't even verify my age online. He can shove my advantageous chip right up his ass.

A report in Politico details a TED talk in Vancouver last month

Oh so it's just rambling musings of some self-important CEO rather than any actual declaration of intent.

There are some good TED talks but a lot of them are just hot air.

No, I don't think I will

I won't even get contact lenses, I ain't letting them putting a chip in my brain.

The fuck I will. Unless they change the definition of 'give in' to 'die' then they don't know shit. I don't want them in my PHONE, let alone my FUCKING HEAD. I think about them too much as is.

Just like we all ran out and bought 3D TVs. Right? And Meta smart glasses. Any day now!

Another tech headline, another thing that would have sounded pretty cool 20-30 years ago but today sounds like an absolute nightmare to stay FAR away from. And this one more than most!

The only way I would ever even consider this is if the firmware was open source and the software to interact with it was open source and it had no direct connection to any sort of network at all and required an external device that I could turn off or on to connect to it an external network. Oh, and the hardware would need to be open source as well.

Sorry chooms, I won’t be chippin’ in.

Can't wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.

We could be granting everyone in the world a high standard of living but instead we're going to charge them to self-induce early onset neurodegenerative disease.

knows you'll give in eventually

No, I bloody will not.

Let me put a chip in my brain that will run software developed by the lowest paid intern using claude 7. I dont trust big corp to update my phone and car, there is zero chance i trust them with my brain.

If by "for a while" you mean "until I'm dead" . . then yea, sure. Any other definition . . no chance in hell.

"You'll eventually give in" Tells you everything you need to know about the power of large tech companies in the US .

We have the money and the power to force this technology in to the mainstream. Tech companies know that Congress is way too old, way too corrupt, and way too slow to really do anything about regulating stuff like this in a reasonable time frame. They have no real barriers and the heads of these companies don't give a shit about the user as long as they pay their monthly subscription.

The incredible, sci-fi point-&-click adventure game Technobabylon is about people who chose to install such "wetware" into their brains and people, like the protagonist, who refused it. It's good stuff.

I’m reminded of the guy I saw who couldn’t get out of the courthouse parking garage because he didn’t have a smartphone to pay for the parking.

I’d still rather break a gate than get an implant.

These people need to be stopped. Seriously.

The actual article is much more informative than a rando's ramblings.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/05/15/silicon-valley-ai-transhumanism-brain-data-00900799

I’ve been evangelising for smart glasses for years. But even if they get the functionality I’ve been hoping for I’m still not going to get them, because i don’t want every woman i meet to think I’m secretly recording her tits

There’s no way I’m letting Elon musk do brain surgery on me to harvest my thoughts

It's not like we don't know the playbook already.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/

Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they'll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.

I wouldn't trust these assholes with a rabid viper let alone my own brain

So many people are already functionally hooked up, even if it is happening through their eyes and not a direct wire. Prove me wrong, everybody: don’t touch any of your devices for a week. It’s nigh unthinkable now but I remember times when the internet didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist, I had no cable TV, no game console, and would only turn on my little black and white Mac to write a paper for school. We listened to music a lot, socialized in person, smoked a lot of… various things, had a lot of sex. It’s a rather poor trade we’ve made if you ask me.

The worst parts of Severance + Pluribus

They can't even supply chips for computers or phones at this point...they think they can introduce an entirely new product type (which has yet to have much success, either) while failing with the datacenter LLM shit?

Lmao cant wait to hear about the unforeseen side effects, like imagine getting a headache every time there's a solar flare or CME

Bloody amateur cartoon villains, attempting to do mass mind control…

No I wouldn't trust them with something like that. Too many times they get us hooked on some technology, only to pull the rug later and jack up the prices, or enshittify the service.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.