Poll: What flavour of Soylent would you most prefer?
Maybe the possibilities and potential is impressive, but the manifestation of this as being able to control devices and some increase in speed and processing power sound a lot like the utopian claims made previously for many innovations. It seems the disadvantages were not always emphasized, considered, known, and/or taken very seriously.
Every person who has had this surgery reports they are completely satisfied, it surpasses expectations, and they encourage everyone to have the procedure.
I wouldn’t trust that, two years from now, I wouldn’t have the equivalent of a boxy USB 2.0 Type-B jack in my head while all the kids are getting Type-C implants. I had brain surgery for this?
I would wait until the technology was mature enough to know it isn’t going to blow up or cause me brain damage, and until I can be assured that the company won’t abruptly deactivate my device or do an “upgrade” that enshittifies it or try to sell my thoughts to advertisers or insert ads into my stream of consciousness, but if I could trust that it works and won’t be exploited I’d absolutely go for it.
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Elon is promising “Full Self Thinking” by second quarter of next year.
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Depends. Who makes the operating system? I’m not putting Windows in my brain.
Coincidentally, Microsoft recently announced a Windows feature that will record every single thing you do and “recall” it later. Which sounds a lot like several sci-fi stories (like one by Ted Chiang) about implants that do exactly that, except for your whole life.
Things are gonna get weird in the future.
Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?
Speaking from experience, having hole drilled into your head and something with a dedicated effect on your brain placed there is not pleasant.
I would think twice before lining up and doing that little thing.
Yeah…no…
Techbros keep taking episodes of Black Mirror and thinking “Hey, that’s a good idea!”
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Don’t attack other posters outside the pit.
The internet is becoming less usable due to pollution by AI hallucinations and scams and whatnot. Before I allow the Information Age to be plugged directly into my brain, I would want to be sure we are not just about to transition into the Misinformation Age.
I voted yes, but with a caveat.
I’m assuming that this new super-spiffy interface won’t require me to actually think for keywords, etc… like we do in Google today. The assumption is that I’ll be able to think it and it’ll be able to interpret it into a well formed search and give me pertinent results.
Or whatever along those lines- I won’t have to sequentially think in terms of spaces, capitol letters, etc… but rather imagine fully formed sentences and paragraphs and they’ll be in my texts, emails, documents, etc… Or be able to think "Make a reminder for three Saturdays from now at 3 pm at Bob’s house. " instead of having to mentally go to the calendar app in my head, browse three weeks and three days ahead, and create a calendar entry then go associate the address with that to the calendar entry.
It would ALL be about the interface. If it’s the same, or close to the same just without the actual mouse/touchscreen/keyboard, then there’s no way. But depending on how intuitive and well-realized the interface would be, it could be a game-changer.
BSOD taken to another level.
I already control those things with my brain.
Or…are they controlling you?
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For himself?
Can i still talk? Do my fingers work? Then probably not. But if i were disabled, i might jump at it.