• Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What. I still rember the article about the Monkeys Musk butchered with his Microchips! This was terrifying and disgusting and now he is allowed to do this to humans?! WTF.

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    All I’m seeing is ads streamed directly to the brain with no way but one to stop it, assuming that instinct doesn’t get neurologically suppressed.

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        True, which is one of the many reasons why intelligent people will generally try to avoid having The Monkey Killer installed in their brains.

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            Yeah, no… I’m generally in support of making all software FOSS, but I draw the line at making my brain functions open source 😄

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              On the contrary it being open source is the only way I’d ever put a chip in my brain.

              Hell no I don’t want proprietary code running with access to my brain that I don’t have complete control and knowledge of

              Just look at how much sneaky crap is in smartphones already

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        Yes, but only the lucky ones win death in a raffle (1 in a 1000). The rest are shipped to mines. And their memories are not wiped clean, because the suffering is the integral part of such economy.

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    Interesting, isn’t it, that Elon hasn’t even suggested he would be getting a Neuralink chip in his brain…

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    When the conspiracy theory said Gates was doing it, it was the end of days.

    Now that musk is doing it, it’ll be sliced bread 2.0.

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        I will one up you. I’d like to see something that shows body temperature, 02 saturation, and heart rate. Needs to be about the size of a grain of race and implanted in us right after birth. DING, your child has a fever. DING, your child is suffocating in their sleep.

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    Ahh, you can trust the guy who single-hand-idly drove twitter into the ground and pushed a shit sheet metal meme car. He doesn’t know anything about anything, but you can trust him with brain surgery.

    Really though, anyone that thinks this is a good idea and signs up for testing probably deserves the lobotomy they’re going to end up with.

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        There is at least one fanboi in this thread that totally deserves it. Getting the implant should be required in order to allowed buy a Cybertruck. Dead drivers of apocalyptical death-cars are way less dangerous than the alive ones.

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      I mean, he knows loads about manipulating people and being rich. Does he bring value to society?

      No.

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    Finally cyberpunk begins. We need more neon lights, but thanks to LEDs I am looking positively towards our future.

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        You’re being awfully combative. If this behavior continues, the court will mandate installation of a calming chip in your brain.

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          Alongside a medical bill to put the thing in. This isn’t charity, it’s America. You’ll be responsible for paying for the surgery and the rental fee of the courts chip. You don’t own that chip we forced you to put in your brain, you’re just renting it for the rest of your life.

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          Anyone seeing this might want to consider combat training and counter custody training while it’s easy, just in case this is the future we’re headed for. (Also Remember they’re not real people, they’re bureaucrats they’re the same as robots, don’t hold back.)

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        Just wait. It becomes the latest and greatest in communications, then corporate America starts requiring it for employment.

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    I remember reading an article just a few weeks ago about a company that made a combination prosthetic/implant for blind people to be able to see in the…early 2000s, I think? It was an early technology, low-rez, but somewhat miraculous for some.

    And then the company went out of business.

    As the implants began to wear out, or the software developed bugs, or the patients’ needs changed, things fell apart. They lost their vision and nobody could help them because the hardware and software were proprietary.

    Now Elon Musk—with his reputation for quality control and following through with ideas and open source—wants to put things in our brains. Backed by the full faith and credit of Elon Musk.

    One day he’s going to push down an update that makes everybody with a Neuralink stop and say “hehe butts” in a funny voice, and the tech bros will say “lol great meme Elon” even though a dozen of them got hit by a car because they were forced to stop while they walked across the street, and thirty of them lost their jobs because they said “hehe butts” to their managers, and one of them was a soldier who said “hehe butts” in an active warzone and blew the whole squad’s cover.

    I can’t believe anyone is honestly entertaining this.