Hell world where if you don't get the neuralink you're at an effectively 0:100 disadvantage in terms of your capacity for intellectual work but getting the implant means you can be scolded by being given brain damage/death/used to mine bitcoin instead of relaxing.
there is no way Musk will figure out how to make people smarter. the guy failing to run a social media forum is not going to oversee a massive break in neurosurgery
Under capitalism all technology is quickly co-opted by advertising, so you'd be at an advantage ten years later bc everyone around you periodically gets stuck mentally watching imprinted-memory ads from time to time and it functionally gives them severe ADHD
And if the ads stop happening the economy collapses
because these won't be freely available and required by society, you won't be at any kind of disadvantage against normal people. no one will be able to afford this except billionaire failsons.
Hell world where if you don't get the neuralink you're at an effectively 0:100 disadvantage in terms of your capacity for intellectual work but getting the implant means you can be scolded by being given brain damage/death/used to mine bitcoin instead of relaxing.
there is no way Musk will figure out how to make people smarter. the guy failing to run a social media forum is not going to oversee a massive break in neurosurgery
Under capitalism all technology is quickly co-opted by advertising, so you'd be at an advantage ten years later bc everyone around you periodically gets stuck mentally watching imprinted-memory ads from time to time and it functionally gives them severe ADHD
And if the ads stop happening the economy collapses
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because these won't be freely available and required by society, you won't be at any kind of disadvantage against normal people. no one will be able to afford this except billionaire failsons.