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[–] TropicalDingdong 140 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You'll rent frontal cortex space to AI processesing and be happy.

[–] gibmiser 92 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's stupid, Total waste of resources. I use UberBrain and rent my brain and body out from 9 to 5. Sure. I wake up sore and have no idea what my body has been doing or where it was, but I get ten dollars an hour for basically going to sleep for 8 hours.

[–] nova 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Severance is a fantastic show.

[–] gibmiser 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] gibmiser 15 points 9 months ago

Nope, But I'm not surprised. The idea has been explored multiple times in different media.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You basically just described it. Amazing show, very much recommend watching it.

[–] gibmiser 9 points 9 months ago

I'll put it on The List

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've seen this probably a dozen times or more in cautionary scifi stories about why we don't want that, but like, somehow I still want that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

If it's open source hard and software than you better be sure im gonna get it. If it's closed source however im gonna stay faaaaaar away

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the movie Gamer. Scary shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've seen a YouTube video about it sometime ago. Seemed like a bad movie, but with a cool concept.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I actually didn't think it was that bad when I watched it. But then again, I'm not really good at figuring out when a movie is considered "bad" 😅

[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I just hope the first victim will be a techbro

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago

Musk and his board at Neuralink should be first test subjects. But we know that'll never happen. Thousands of people will receive brain damage as they submit for trials hoping to have horrible conditions lessened.

[–] DigitalTraveler42 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Musk himself would be just fine, just like Frankenstein.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Add to the weird billionaire death list, with his narcissism, maybe.

[–] DigitalTraveler42 7 points 9 months ago

Carbon Fiber submarines you say?!?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The first person to receive the neuralink is a paralyzed individual with no quality of life. This may help them communicate with their loved ones.

I don't get why people don't see that this is a medical device.

[–] SacralPlexus 49 points 9 months ago

People do understand this is a medical device. What you seem to not be getting in this situation is that Elon Musk is an absolutely horrible human who has a long track record of badness. There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic that this project will end badly for people who aren’t him.

Awhile back it was discovered that Tesla had quietly programmed Autopilot to disengage if it detected a crash was eminent. Why? Because they were asked to report how many crashes occurred while autopilot was active. Their solution was to game the system rather than actively try to solve any potential problems and be honest / critical of what they had built. This is a system that already has the potential to get people killed. Do you suppose that sort of unscrupulous decision making is going to stop when his people are implanting devices in human brains?

[–] Jomega 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Medical devices aren't supposed to kill their users, which is what happened in the animal testing phase. It didn't even have a single successful case of doing what it's supposed to.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Jesus, it didn't? I already know I never want this horrible thing and I know all those monkeys died so I don't read about it in depth, but they never even got the thing to work? Somebody needs to stop him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It did work in terms of output, I'm pretty sure. It's just that all the monkeys (and pigs) died due to complications, and some had gruesome deaths

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We get what it is. We just don't remotely trust the self-serving conman behind it.

What you're saying here is "The first victim is an incredibly vulnerable person who deserves so much better than being offered false hope by a manipulative bastard with a God complex."

Picking suffering people to prey on only makes him more of a bastard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Cause they've been hyping it up as the next big thing for everybody

[–] Duamerthrax 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

But how will we know if it causes brain damage or loss of free thinking?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You ask them what they think of Musk after being so close to him for a couple of days

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I hope the first victim will be Musk. But even he doesn't drink the koolaid as hard as the average techbro.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago

With my new NeuraLink™, I feel an odd compulsion to buy a Cybertruck™ with my entire life savings.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gabe Newell is also working on this kind of tech and I trust him a helluva lot more.

[–] trashgirlfriend 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Society collapses due to collective inability to perceive the number 3

[–] NoSpiritAnimal 7 points 9 months ago

They produced a trilogy of duologies. Gabe operates one layer above our perceptions.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

I LOVE IT! IT'S MUCH BETTER THAN CATS! I'M GOING TO BUY NEURALINK™ FOR ALL MY FRIENDS!

[–] cuchilloc 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Philip K. Dick / Vonnegut vibes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Of all the futurists, Mr. Dick wins for modern distopian accuracy in my opinion.

[–] Crack0n7uesday 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Elon uses doge coin and he's proud of it...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I am a proud dogecoin user since 2012.

Elon and his punp n dump schemes can go fuck himself, he practically tried to destroy it with inflation.

[–] Yewb 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Zero percent chance elon will do this to himself, it should tell you all you need to know.

[–] tourist 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Are you saying someone else will have to do it?

I'll need a bonesaw and some ketamine

also maybe some stuff for the surgery

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

i mean the fact that their website hasn't been updated since september should give you a feeling of doubt about the veracity of elon's claim