I’d be on board with Neuralink… if Musk wasn’t behind it.
Think I"ll wait for an open source brain chip
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.
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.
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.
His maga fanboys would ram a rusty nail into their skull if he tells them it’s the hot new shit.
The joke is that something Elon’s companies make actually works reliably.
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
I was gonna say Tesla but he actually bought that company, and it doesn’t do as well anymore
Okay so for anyone who’s played outer worlds I could see this sort of plot being central to outer worlds 2
Probably not, since
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Starfield
did the whole mind control implant thing already
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I mean so did
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Cyberpunk 2077 ::: that doesn’t mean obsidian can’t also write their own brain control sidequest or whatever.
Idunno… I bet
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Bethesda
is much more litigious than
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CD Projekt
I dunno. I bet
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Microsoft
Isn’t going to sue
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I think
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You’re right
The problem with the comic’s premise is that Neuralink doesn’t do memories at all. It’s more like a replacement for a keyboard and mouse.
But sure, I guess: never pass up a cheap shot on Elon ;)
The problem with the comic’s premise is that Neuralink doesn’t do memories at all.
Elon Musk says you could save and replay memories with Neuralink
‘The future’s gonna be weird’: Musk says memories could be downloaded into a new body or robot
He’s also said that full self driving mode is just a year away… He’s said that 10 years running.
He also said we’d be on mars by 2021.
…and here’s a 20 second clip where he lets on that he knows it’s all a grift…
(just like Black Mirror)
Technology’s red flag.
What, are you saying we shouldn’t build the Torment Nexus as envisioned in sci-fi classic ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus’?
no. this is a cheap shot.
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
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….
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.”
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.
Cyberpunk dystopias are depressing because we have all of the bad stuff (corporations running everything) and none of the cool stuff (cybernetic augments).
