Damn, wish my brain had a thing where it would store important information that it would be able to recall any time :thinking-about-it:
blockchain is like the anti-quantum in that whatever you add the word to becomes suddenly much stupider
I have my bank information stored on a quantum computer
I have my bank information stored on the blockchain
It checks out.
:ferret-poggers:
You've been working on that project thats our property, we cant let you leave with those memories. Two year memory wipe
"You will be able to save and replay memories..."
.. and commercials!
Really, cause I think I could find a 7 year old pretty readily who could come up with “you could transfer your brain into a robot.” Why, when this fuck says it, are people like “holy shit dude, what a visionary?”
He's like a character in a Philip K. Dick short story: The Neo-Snake Oil Salesman Selling Electric Cars and Trips to Mars.
The Neo-Snake Oil Salesman Selling Electric Cars and Trips to Mars.
I actually was happy that there was something by Dick I haven't read yet :deeper-sadness:
or the batteries that burst into flames
that would be an improvement. they actually burst into molten lithium, like a volcano
https://hexbear.net/post/163514what really pisses me off is BCIs do have real potential to help with those conditions + with prosthetics but instead thousand of hours of work is going to be poured into the deranged, impossible notion of extracting + implanting memories because that's got better appeal to individuals incapable of seeing anything as useful if they cannot use it themselves
Altered Carbon type shit
I only watched the show but it's a story where a bunch of revolutionaries got together to overthrow the wealthy so that they wouldn't use the magic alien body swapping technology to oppress everyone. The revolutionaries lose and for hundreds of years the wealthy become immortal gods that use the technology to basically trick poor people into thinking they can't die and then murdering them during graphic violent sexual acts, getting off on that they tricked them into permanent death. It's even implied it's done to children.
So someone looks at this show/book and then goes "man wouldn't it be cool if we lived a society that had cortical stacks?"
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
We're sorry, but that memory of your loved one who died can only be unlocked with MEMOR + just $5.99 a month! Enjoy unlimited access to all your memories and emotions, save and upload them to the cloud, interact with a community of memory influencers and so much more!
Elon-heads are surely chomping at the bit to let Elon hack their brain. I'll never understand people. How have we made it this far as a species?
How have we made it this far as a species?
Mutual aid and cooperation. Capitalism has made god damned sure to kill that off though and is making us regress as people. We all hate and kill each other and cheer on and empty our wallets out for the people literally oppressing us, like Elon.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars. The men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
— H. L. Mencken
This is literally what's going to happen and bazinga brains are totally fine with it. You're going to be a lithium mining slave on the mars one colony with Elon and your memories of home are going to be behind a paywall and it's fine, normal, cool, and good.
Based on Elons track record of bullshitting it wont do any of this. Its main feature will probably be exploding half your skull off idk
It’s going to end up being a tooth phone
OMG our rocket daddy made telepathy possible you can talk to other people.
Your life passing before your eyes would be the closest his claims would come to being true.
Watching that black mirror episode and thinking “great idea”
"Ah yes, the Torment Nexus! From the famous sci-fi novel 'Don't Build the Torment Nexus!'"
their AI done surgery even in their promotional material pierces numerous blood vessels despite them saying otherwise
:yes-hahaha-yes-r: :yea:
Anybody who wants this enough to volunteer for a trial already has brain damage
Isn't "saving and replaying a memory" like the whole point of remembering something?
Shame on you. If there's no chip - Elon doesn't get this beak wet.
The people I work with aren’t even explicit Elon stans and view him as a savant saviour of mankind that can “solve any problem”.
I fucking hate working in the tech industry. These are some of the nicest people I’ve met in my experience there too, but the California ideology is so incredibly ingrained that it’s hopeless.
It's been like 80 years since Stalin died, the USSR is gone, and people still worship him like everything that happened while he was party leader was his personal decision.
and people still worship him like everything that happened while he was party leader was his personal decision
others will also go the opposite way and hate him like everything done was his personal decision
this great man shit is really really hard to dispel
Stalin was a cool dude, but he was not a dictator or someone with unlimited power by any stretch of the imagination
One entry lead me to this tweet...
A Tesla works as a boat for short periods of time, as an electric car has no air intake or exhaust to block & battery/motor/electronics are water-sealed. Submarines are just underwater EVs.
As "proof" there's a very short vid that looks like it was filmed by somebody on a potato. The very shitty "raw footage" is a simply a guy driving through a slightly flooded tunnel. The footage is even more pointless since the camera is inside the car because of course it is.
I mean, the idea isn't wrong. EVs would be great choices for short-term emergency responses where you might need to drive through partially flooded roads or something. This is somewhat offset by the fact that Teslas are notorious for having fucking holes in them straight out of the factory.
The guy whose tech has fees for updates and access to built-in features, fails to work as advertised, and fucking bursts into unquenchable flames wants to put a piece of his tech in your brain.
Any takers?
I saw a tweet the other day and writer mockingly mentioned watching a Youtube vid of a guy using a hairdryer to unfreeze the door handle of his Tesla. Ninja edit - I found a good thread with a 10 second video: Door handles that freeze way to easy on Tesla Model 3/Y : CrappyDesign.
I was born in the 1960s. In the pre-digital age before the net as we know it, before Google etc - I was empathic and sympathetic to many people who were scammed. Information was rarer then. But now - not only do I not feel empathy and I entirely devoid of even sympathy to people like Tesla owners. We all make mistakes with purchases of random stuff. You buy a neato food processor for ~$50 bucks and it seems like a steal but then it breaks a few months later. It happens. Such is life.
But how can anyone spend 10,000s of dollars on car without even doing the bare minimum of googling for problems? And it's so weird that many Tesla owners are still so in thrall to Elon that even after they realize they made a big mistake buying his car - they go to absurd lengths to rationalize and deceive themselves. Elon's got them under his thumb and instead of trying to escape they pled for more pressure.
At this point he'll just say whatever thing crosses his mind and his dumb amerikkkan techbro cultists will accept it.
We barely know how our brains work, we can barely repair some very minor damage, we can barely do limited surgery and this motherfucker claims that with his fucking chip you can "download your memories". Someone mess up with his brain with a fucking b**let, useless piece of shit.
Remember that brain implant that is supposed to treat depression through microscopic electrical shocks which are chemically activated? That seems like a far simpler thing to tackle and afaik hasn't made it to market yet.
Deep Brain Stimulation I think has been approved for severe Parkinson’s.
