POLL: What do you think of Elon's Neuralink?
1257 sats \ 14 comments \ @birdeye21 22 Aug 2023 tech
Would you get chipped if they became widely available?
What disaster (or utopia?) are we barreling towards here??
SETTING A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT44.8%
DON'T CARE, WON'T GET IT20.7%
NEUTRAL / OPEN TO IT3.4%
OPTIMISTICALLY CAUTIOUS20.7%
PLUG ME IN DADDY ELON10.3%
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131 sats \ 1 reply \ @l0k18 22 Aug 2023
You left out the option "I will stay airgapped, thanks"
Maybe it's a little too old for most of you all here, but the network defence systems described in William Gibson's Sprawl books should make anyone wary to get a device that puts them at risk of remote sending of signals that trigger a nervous system shutdown and death.
Anyone above ground with one of these in their head during a Carrington Event is going to probably at least have severe brain damage, if it doesn't outright kill them.
That doesn't even include the issue of the government getting a golden key to send signals into your neuralink. Spying on your literal thoughts, and reconstructing recorded thoughts to hypnotise you remotely while thinking it's your own voice. Anyone who hasn't tampered with their own consciousness already yet in other ways really has no idea how dangerous this is.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 22 Aug 2023
Anyone who hasn't tampered with their own consciousness already yet in other ways really has no idea how dangerous this is.
Very good point
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51 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 22 Aug 2023
I'm excited about extending human capacity, but I'm afraid of the hopelessness of securing the tech.
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66 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Aug 2023
Human capacity is already extended, but people are retarded and not use it... Usually a human brain is used only 10 % of its capacity, nowadays. We can do much better with training. WE DO NOT NEED MACHINES FOR THAT..
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177 sats \ 3 replies \ @rybka 22 Aug 2023
The 10% thing is long disproved cap and just plain wrong framing. Your brain is obviously being used all the time, just most of it are sub/unconscious functions like heartbeat control, regulation of bodily functions, mental processes etc. If it was running at 10% capacity you would die within minutes. There is no proof of this 90% big brain potential having been unlocked. Which is why I voted for getting plugged, of course.
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7 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Aug 2023
Good luck being a vegetable.
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @rybka 22 Aug 2023
Pretty sure that's the term for people with 10% brain capacity, which is what you described yourself in your post lol. Are you posting from an ICU again, Darth?
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Aug 2023
I'm a cyborg remember?
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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Aug 2023
I found the perfect candidates for that neuralink
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Aug 2023
Before you vote, please watch this : https://www.corbettreport.com/musk/
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @JohnRawlins 22 Aug 2023
imho, a very very bad idea. one doesn't change the perfect design of the human body, by implanting chips.
this may not be a popular opinion here, but it is authentically my own.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 22 Aug 2023
nah that's a popular opinion here
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JohnRawlins 30 Aug 2023
that makes me very glad.
reading slashdot these days literally feels like i'm standing in a sea of people under strong delusion.....
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44 sats \ 0 replies \ @watchmancbiz 12 Mar
Mark of The Beast Tech.
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