The joke is that something Elon’s companies make actually works reliably.
I’d be on board with Neuralink… if Musk wasn’t behind it.
Think I"ll wait for an open source brain chip
It is a really interesting, very scary technology that requires a solid institutional foundation to provide trust. Musk degrades trust, he doesn’t build it.
His maga fanboys would ram a rusty nail into their skull if he tells them it’s the hot new shit.
I’m not sure I’d even trust a fully local open source one.
The issues about trusting hardware and software development tools all lead to problems here.
Yeah if a bug or a hardware failure can make me see nightmare spiders everywhere or send a signal to my pain centers, that’s a permanent no.
Actual augments like this will never work if they phone home to do their job. There could be massive benefits to people with a huge variety of conditions and interests, but if it’s corpo ware and isn’t hyper protected by medical review, and long term support, it’s junk
Just play Deus Ex to see the potential ramifications. That and I know things go to the lowest bidder and I know what developers are like….
One of many futuristic “dystopias” that actually ended up being far too optimistic compared to reality.
“This plague…the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.”
“Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they’ll beg us to save them.”
Reality: “In the end they’ll refuse to be vaccinated anyway.”
Saw an interview with Warren Spector where he said if he was making Deus Ex today, it would be completely different, since the game they made back then would look like a documentary.
How long till Apple photos inserts iPods into the background of your favourite childhood photos?
“Subscribe to premium to (temporarily) remove branding from your family memories!”
Lol that’s funny! No one would actually do that to another person! We are completely safe because this degree of selfishness does not exist, that’s why I can laugh at it!