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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally, I think the technology has great potential. But under capitalism? Fuck no.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gimme open sourced brain chips and I'm in

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are now required to use the command line just to think.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you imagine getting stuck in vim?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. Democratically produced and managed

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol i would say no under any system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are legitimate, helpful uses for such technology

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, for example as a coder being able to conjecture code just by thinking it would be magical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. And the potential for VR and total immersion development. Thinking things into existence. The art people could make from pure imagination. A real metaverse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was thinking more along the lines of "Oh, this will make my legs work again!" or "This chip bypasses the damage done by [horrible brain disease] allowing you to reclaim some significant percentage of functionality"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is another clear benefit, yes!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

to do that with someone's brain would be a nightmare, stray thoughts would fuck up the code and it would take forever to make anything comprehensible