Meh, I think the concept of interfacing directly with the brain is really interesting, I just don’t know if an Elon company is the one I want doing it.
Of course I’d rather have a brain interface that I didn’t have to implant though.
I agree that the concept is interesting, but honestly the damage that could be done with something like that is just not worth it.
With corporate greed you can’t be sure what weird step they decide to do next. And everything they do directly affects you. Not to speak of the possibility of getting hacked and having a weird version of the bee movie play in your head on loop.
Imagine ransomware for your memories
We can hardly get our self-designed computer systems to adequately communicate with each other or function. How confident are you that we can design an appropriate interface with our brain? Something which we still have yet to fully decipher?
In no way do I want venture capitalists and tech bros fucking fumbling around in my brain with hardware designed and constructed by the lowest bidder.
There is a non-zero chance that once they have a chip in your brain, they will find a way to stream ads in to it.
For that reason, I’m out.
Why stream ads when they can more-directly influence you?
Every post on this topic I see I like to remind people how easy it would be to remotely generate excruciating pain and how that could be used to control people in ways slavers of the past could only dream.
Hello You, come CloZer
Wait, you mean I can let the guy who invented a shittier version of a subway train (the tunnel has colorful LEDs though) and routinely bitches about safety regulations put computer chips in my brain?! Woah, sign me up for the future!
i cant believe they actually built that tunnel. they filled a nearly inescapable underground tube with cars known for combusting and burning for ages
Not only that, but burning aggressively. I’ve seen my share of car fires, having worked in EMS for 12 years, there’s no such thing as a gentle car fire; if they burned any more aggressively, they’d basically just explode. Well, something about the lithium makes these fires fucking rip and they’re a nightmare to put out. I just did some quick googling, and supposedly Li-ion battery fires are able to supply their own oxygen (holy shit), so you can’t put a lithium battery fire out by smothering it with water or foam. Maybe I’m wrong and someone who isn’t an Internet idiot (it’s me, I’m the idiot) can correct me, but that sounds hella bad, and like of one of those cars caught fire in that tunnel, that fire just flat out isn’t getting put out.
ive heard that too
I mean, that’s how cautionary tales such as Black Mirror are supposed to work
Friendly reminder that pacemakers can and do get hacked
They usually have no security at all though for some reason, maybe for the same reason viruses spread like crazy in the early days of the internet, people didn’t consider that and assumed everyone was acting in good faith
Making a secure device isn’t reeeally that hard these days, as long as you don’t also have to consider physical access (which, if someone has access to physically probe the chip in your brain, you have bigger problems)
Security is an illusion a determined hacker will get into the brain chip
If the person has a disability and the chip somehow improves the condition, then, under extremely tight legislation, yes. Otherwise, no.
yeah, tons of informed consent too
PC parts can’t even go few years without losing backwards compatibility (e.g. cpu sockets changing every few years). Last thing I need is for my physical body to incompatible with the newest and best stuff because I got a permanent implant when the tech wasn’t as evolved. This will always be the problem with invasive technology in my opinion.
So I have a cat chipped 15 years ago, and she can still operate modern devices with it - open doors, get food from a robot.
Not all tech goes obsolete fast, there are legacy compatibility layers!
I think human brain implants might be a bit more complicated than chips for pets.
Yeah but keeping them backwards compatible is gonna be much more important as well
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That’s a cable standard. Imagine being stuck with usb 1.
No. (It’s made by Elon Musk, I would not buy it use anything he made if you held a gun to my head)
Don’t forget Elon Musk is a big fan of the game franchise Deux Ex. And that’s an insanely distopian future. That’s the kind of dark hellish world that whiny little manchild wants.
Given how big corpos are already fucking up the job market due to AI, it’s not such a good idea to go all in with cutting edge technologies right from the get-go
The job market evolves, you either evolve with it or you don’t. What do you think these implants are for? Lmao.
You write like a tween who doesn’t know what they’re talking about
I’m so offended, I think I’ll sit in a corner angrily whilest thinking of what you did to me
Depends on the use case and the oversight. If I lose the ability to walk and an implant can make it easier I’ll take the implant. It’s unfortunate this type of technology didn’t exist for Hawking. With what he had he could only write a sentence a minute IIRC.
RemindMe! 40 years
No remindmebot on lemmy, sad
Well in 40 years there might be
I’ll remind you :)
@[email protected] 40 years
If it is advertised well, it will be the same as with smartphones nowadays. Companies won’t plant chips into human brains, people will pay to have chips planted into their brains and pay even more for yearly upgrades.
I’m theory I don’t oppose it to help regain senses and such. In practice that’s already happened and been a disaster
Hi theory! It’s so great to finally meet you!
The only way I would accept a microchip is if they implant it deep in my ass with a huge cock
Based.
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