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

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92 points

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.

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46 points

Severance is a fantastic show.

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11 points

Haven’t seen it

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17 points

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.

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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

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12 points

Reminds me of the movie Gamer. Scary shit.

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7 points

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

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78 points

I just hope the first victim will be a techbro

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43 points

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.

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Musk himself would be just fine, just like Frankenstein.

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15 points

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

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7 points

Carbon Fiber submarines you say?!?

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19 points

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.

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49 points

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?

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27 points

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.

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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.

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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.

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5 points

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

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

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2 points

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

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8 points

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

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55 points

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

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43 points

Reminds me of this

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

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6 points

Society collapses due to collective inability to perceive the number 3

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7 points

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

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