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Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Can we just ..... not keep going down the brain rot rabbit hole we are going down as a society? 24 hours in a day doesn't allow enough screen time? We need to just... funnel this shit straight in somehow?

I used to be excited for this kind of stuff, then I saw what we've done with the technology we have. People are "auto" driving their cars while they wear their apple vision pros, that's what we do with it.... Pretty soon tiktoc titties will be streamed straight to our frontal cortex.

Maybe I am just old, or maybe it would just be better if it was a different company doing it. But maybe a giant meteor should take us out ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

In my 20's I was all for it. I understand where the techbros are coming from. Now with over a decade more experience, I see clearly we need to spend so much more of our energy healing from traumas on the societal level: To dispel imperial-colonialist mindsets. Im thinkin of Bo Burningham speaking about how the empires exhausted all physical territory, and then discovered Data, going on to colonize every waking moment of our attention.

We need to shed the subconcious conquistador, with all it's machismo, all it's tribalism (most agregiously white supremacist nationalism) and covetous paranoia. It is a poison which will prevent us from making the societal leap from which all tides would rise.

Until we do that, all we'll get for this tech will be:

dystopic labor camp colonies on Mars
advertisements when we are trying to dream
Military tech developed under the guise of "medical 🌈 disabilities 🌈 quality 🌈 of 🌈 life 🌈 improvement 🌈 research" [1]

And we collectively deserve better

1: DeathPanel Podcast | Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The ultimate goal of this technology is to enable the blind to see, deaf to hear and the paralyzed to walk. Not that you can watch netflix in your mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm down, if I even remotely believed anything that comes out of Elon Musks mouth. I promise you, that is not where this will go.