No, I don't think I will
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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Just like we all ran out and bought 3D TVs. Right? And Meta smart glasses. Any day now!
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.
Later on they will sell your brain to private equity CEO like Bitwarden.
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.
Sorry chooms, I won’t be chippin’ in.
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.
The cope is really deep in the tech sector. Way too many imbeciles who think they're geniuses and too much VC to throw around.
AI is incredible if you ask it about stuff you're not an expert on. Once you ask it those things you already have expert level knowledge on, especially nuanced questions, you'll start to see the issues. It won't be every question it gets wrong, but it's often enough to be an issue.
In other words, it’s all an illusion. It’s a ruse to get us to feed it our thoughts, so it can summarize our files and our queries, and it can feed us the responses it is told to feed us.
We already know it can do that since they’re placing fucking ads in it.
yes doomers they're coming for you doomers ...
just because you're paranoid .....
bwahahahahahaaaaaa ....
"This shit ain't nothing to me, man."
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.
Isn’t it also a major plot point in Cyberpunk 2077? Like, the plot point?
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?
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.
I'm glad I learned that excessive convenience is a bad thing before this became the norm.
Doesn't matter.. we all know you're a 47 year old used car salesman from Peoria.
LOL!
They WANT that, don't they. Framing like that makes me hate them even more...
GFY!
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.
If it happens regularly, you can always keep a battery-powered reciprocating saw in your car to make it easier. Heck, that's probably faster than the app!
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.
'Die' when you are locked out of society because everything will need brainchips as a key, and you starve if you can't afford brainmoney transactions
and you starve
That’s why “eat the rich” is a thing.
I believe David Icke predicted this way back in the late 80's, early 90's. Who would have thought that fruitcake would be right about something?
Lmao cant wait to hear about the unforeseen side effects, like imagine getting a headache every time there's a solar flare or CME
I was going to say “imagine getting an MRI” but they’ll probably use all our helium for cooling superconductive quantum AI datacenters so…won’t be no MRI
Bloody amateur cartoon villains, attempting to do mass mind control…
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.
Heh, I was thinking of that in the context of age verification. “But the children” overrides the terminal fear of Antichrist?
Accelerationism.
The thing is, it won't be this generation it will be several from now.