This was the original cyberpunk-transhumanist message. Not "cybernetics will destroy your soul" but "corporations own your body, or worse parts of your body"

That's a new hell-on-eath I wasn't aware of. Yikes.

A good argument for open source

Terrifying. No government bailout for improving people's life quality...

Thanks for sharing.

Well that's fucking bleak, at least I got a good chuckle out of this

NPM’s novel implant for drug delivery.

So that's how they keep JavaScript devs hooked!

3 years later they’ll end the support

I don't think that's a fair characterization - it sounds like they ran out of money and the company that bought all their assets didn't maintain support. (And in that company's defense, it's really hard to maintain support for something when you've bought the IP but you don't have any of the institutional knowledge.)

People are still driving Teslas right now. Pretty much the same in my book. You're trusting your life to a proven moron.

Well the disabled people getting this implant probably don't care about musk, it's legitimately a cool technology and good competition for the medical space.

Musk is a cuck still, and I'm sure we'll have to wait a couple generations before we get the dystopian stuff in Neurallink

i can’t imagine anything worse in the world

I can... there are literally people who are willing to participate in Musk's Mars colonization fantasies. They stand about as much chance of success (or survival) as those people who got imploded in that Titanic sub - except their deaths won't be as quick and merciful.

But some people if they get the chance they would even eat musk poop.

Accelerationism in a nutshell

Your tinnitus will get progressively louder until you pay your bill

The thought that frightens me even more (although I am not a neurologist) is that if this is installed in children, and the neural pathways for the child's basic functions are formed to pass through that implant, removing the implant will render the child unable to think.

Firmware is just software that we try to update less often.

Laughs in nordic

I have a (peripheral) nerve stimulator implanted.

Insurance paid for the trial implant, then the permanent one. They also paid for a couple of meetings with a rep from the mfgr who showed me how to use it best.

I have the device, the control, and a transdermal charger. No subscriptions, no remote access, I don't think it keeps logging data.

The big issue I have with brain chips is longevity. How long until the electrodes degrade? When will the chips fail? Once they fail, will it be fail safe or fail deadly? Also, what will be the power source? Will it use inductive power, or battery power? They are both awful options. What if the chip overheats? The implementation is the real question here, but neuralink refuse to give any answers because it proprietary.

That's not even to mention that the kind of dystopian technology people are imagining isn't anywhere close to what the Neuralink device is actually capable of.

Yet. They'll get to work on that just as soon as they can, don't you worry!

Does it work though?

I only ask this because Musk has been promising full self driving in Teslas "next year" for about a decade now, so any claims made should be taken with an enormous pinch of salt.

I kind of agree. While I think they are not that bad as far as advancements go, most of it is shitstained by Musk, who has to be seen at all cost and have to be seen as the ultimate inventor of everything.

He wants to be seen, stay relevant, and be the boss of everything, that he usually makes dumb decisions, which is a stain on a company mostly relying on a foundation of very intelligent people.

They touched on this concept in the black mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits". Very minor spoilers, read on if you dare

Not with a brain implant per se. But had to pay merits or else watch porn ads. And if you don't have any merits, guess what they're unskippable.

Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

Edit: oh heck. It might have been The Diamond Age.

Edit 2: search yielded

"Bud knew a guy like that who'd somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself." --Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age

Imagine how high stakes it is to avoid bricking your brain.

Sure, you can root your brain and install a custom firmware on it, but your eyes won't work unless you install the proprietary Google-Netflix-Microsoft-MPAA DRM blobs.

CyanogenMod

That would be LineageOS now. but yes, definitely root the hell out of your brain implant!

Edit: spelling.

FreeTaste 2.0

Imagine someone infecting a user's implant with a script that makes everything you eat/drink taste like leftover Jägermeister in a cup from a week ago

Looking forward to the eventual open source/Linux version of this lol.

My brain runs Arch BTW

Uh, it's a "submersible" and it's not plastic, it's throwaway expired carbon fiber from Boeing...

I'm kinda excited about the technology, but very pessimistic when looking at the way our current technology is used.

But what about the invisible spyware/adware(/mind control???) they'll be putting in without anyone knowing by using threads and components embedded inside the chip?

"The short life of the company" might not be exclusive to the company if elon doesn't go back to normal.

Just wait until it's not technically mandatory, but you can't do your taxes, find a job or participate in society without beaming ads straight to your brain.

A LOT of things would have to change for me to consider it. For a start, I wouldn't want it made by a shareholder owned, for-profit corporation.

I'll take the Army of Darkness gauntlet version thank you

Technology progresses pretty fast today, especially where there's money. Who knows, maybe in a decade or so it'll already be possible, especially if this goes mainstream.

Yeah, but just a couple years ago, you could've said the same thing about AI, and now it's everywhere. So, we could be just a couple years from brain chips that make us execute order 66 and kill all the Jedi.

Elon musk has a to thing for having many kids with women as quickly as possible. He had twins with his first wife via IVF followed by triplets with IVF (which kind of has uncomfy implications if you think about it). Then had a kid with Grimes and then another kid with her via surrogate while separated. And weeks before the surrogate kid was born he had twins with the exec he was having an affair with. It's really weird.

The Simpson guy predicted the future once again

Gotta start somewhere! For all we know the Borg began as a simple neural implant developed by Space Coca Cola, marketed as a way to touclessly interface with vending machines, but with the actual designed purpose to make you thirsty af and constantly crave sugary beverages.

And then the Coca Cola logistical AI gained sentience.

Remember the one where they elected a TV clown to run everything?

That show is out of date.

I feel like we are already past that point and are knee deep in multiple Black Mirror episodes.

Remember that episode where they trained a chat bot off a dead loved one? Then it evolved to a cloned voice, then a realistic robot body? Well we’re one step off from that

Isn't there a black mirror episode about someone experiencing a terrible fate because of a malfunctioning brain implant that just got FDA approval?

What are you waiting for? We're already living in it! :)

Bold claim.

EDIT: It’s a joke about claiming to have extra brain cycles.

At some point a wireless transmission will be enough, no need for implant. That's the real nightmare

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Neurolink is a grift by an idiot billionaire that drank his own koolaide.

Shouldn't they already know where I'm gonna be?

It's precrime; if they want to know my location instead of they already having it, it means they've absolutely failed at their job.

Even better, with your MINT

This could enable prosthetics with full dexterity that you can control. It could be life changing for some people.

This has already enabled corporations to force people to go under surgery to remove senses or limbs that had already been restored. With this technology, your body autonomy is now live service.

I imagine everyone in the space except elon is thinking about the positive benefits and Elon is thinking about a giant spinning dollar sign while Baby Elephant Walk plays on repeat.

After that is a subscription for you to use your legs.

And then the next government just reverses that law. Doesn't sound fun.

I still wouldn't. If it's worth more than the fines, the laws won't stop corporations collecting data.

There will be lootboxes and microtransactions.

DELETE, DELETE

Where did you read that?

If I needed a chip in my head to function in society, I think I would just withdraw from society. I'm barely comfortable with our reliance on smartphones and internet connection in our day to day lives.

They're constructed hierarchy not natural (That hints that someone didn't want to be the fuckup alone & created a destructive system for everyone) otherwise we would be living in a socialist utopia.

I invite everyone to listen to this episode, The history of humanity with Christopher Knight https://www.historicly.net/...

Tell that to all the dead monkeys. It wasn’t that long ago that they were getting slammed for animal rights violations for having a very high number of animal fatalities in their testing compared to similar research groups.

There was even a big thread about it on Reddit where another researcher said that if there were that many deaths in any other project, it would be considered a failure and cancelled.

And now they’re upgrading to humans.

Anyone paying attention to Musk would have known for some time that he is a vain narcissist who says a lot of unfiltered and frankly stupid shit and hates criticism.

I think the first prominent example of this was when those kids were trapped in a cave and everyone laughed at his dumb ideas to get them out and he lashed out calling a rescuer a pedo. A smarter billionaire would have just offered to pay for any logistical support they required and in the aftermath maybe given a stipend for the dead rescuers and built the kids a football pitch. But not old Elon.

As for Neuralink I think it's safe to say it'll go in the failure pile along with the Boring Company.

REVEALED? He was like this from the start. People were just too busy sucking him off.

I mean, after those monkeys died a little skepticism is warranted

Musk burned through 44 billion dollars to acquire Twitter and then he wrecked it. This is not a guy who has a plan. He only cares about that dopamine hit that getting his name in the news gets him. Now he's got his own social media platform that only exists to blow him.

I haven't seen anyone excited about neuralink, ever. Maybe it helps that I don't read Twitter though.

Doesn't matter who pushes them, it only matters who regulates and pushes to control them.

For those who don't know. In Human Revolution the manufacturer of these brain chips sent out a version that allows them to make you go zombie mode on command, like The Last of Us zombies. As a political move. No way in hell I ever have one of these put into me.

There were the hallucinogenic ads too that would get sprayed in your face as a mist, and the hypnotism ads on television that made you dream about the product all night.

I love Transmet.

Literal blue screen of death

See also: Google Glass

Now this really would be cancel culture going too far🤣

Considering the person spearheading this, it seems like the opposite might be the result.

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