cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702

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screenshot of this bluesky post (which you can read without logging in here) from ‪@comraderobot.bsky.social‬ ("Notorious RBMK") saying:

my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got.

there’s unhinged and then there’s tech unhinged

image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text:

REM sleep is the next Al

The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup

  • Controlling a smart home from dreams
  • Transferring speech from dreams
  • Controlling virtual cars from dreams
  • Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants
  • Social media for sharing dream journals
  • Smart sleep masks powered by Al
  • Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech)

Don't miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors

Aug 29th Palo Alto

Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying "Possible tumblr screenshot" with a "hide" button.

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the guy behind this startup:

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. Do you think that's air you're breathing, SorosFootSoldier?

  • UlyssesT
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    15 days ago

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    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      There's blood rituals and then there's "i drilled a hole into my own skull and stuck an electrode into it to make this look less like powerpoint engineering"

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

        deleted by creator

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      3 months ago

      "I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain's motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming"

      This is what you find written on scattered notes in an abandoned asylum in a horror game

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

        deleted by creator

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I performed by myself trepanation

      Use a gun next time. I’ve heard it can trigger a kind of eidetic memory or whatever

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    The Palo Alto Uber Alles book should be a must read in hexbear theory

    I haven't read it obviously but I heard people talk about it for an hour

    • miz [any, any]
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      3 months ago

      I kinda want to listen to the Trashfuture episode but I'm dreading November will say something anticommunist

      • RNAi [he/him]
        ·
        3 months ago

        Eh the risk is always present, but way less in Trashfuture than in WTYP

    • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      it's so good, only 3/4 of the way through but it should be taught in schools

  • Meh [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Game Dev: In my game we invented HypnOS as a cautionary tale

    Tech company: we have created HypnOS from Hypnospace Outlaw

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    "What the fuck, Morpheus."

    "Neo, listen and contemplate. Think of the possibilities and the potential revenue streams if we interrupted REM sleep and pumped ads into people's brains."

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    people kept noticing the dreamlike quality of AI generated images and some techbro made the connection in a K-hole as a way to keep this hypebubble alive

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    This is clearly a grift, and the target is investors, so good luck to them honestly.

    Well wishes rescinded if they ever actually ship a product, of course.

  • FortifiedAttack [any]
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    3 months ago

    You too can achieve REM AI powersleep by implanting Elon's Neuralink brainblender-brand cyberchip 9000 directly into your skull

    It comes with a power plug attached so you can increase your sleep performance with 200 volts of pure electricity blasted straight into your tiny mind.

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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    3 months ago

    They should have promised the ability to work while you sleep. Tech bro types will throw piles of cash at it.

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      i regret to inform you there is another startup literally pitching that: https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-dream-startup-prophetic-headset-prepare-meetings-while-sleeping/