So creeps like Zuck can upload their LLM conscience into my brain? No thank you.
… Actually, that would make a great horror movie.
It’s not like we don’t know the playbook already.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/
Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they’ll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.
And your employment history, financial status, known associates, voter record, you get the idea.
I don’t trust these ghouls to pour me a glass of water, they won’t get anywhere near my body
“You’ll eventually give in” Tells you everything you need to know about the power of large tech companies in the US .
We have the money and the power to force this technology in to the mainstream. Tech companies know that Congress is way too old, way too corrupt, and way too slow to really do anything about regulating stuff like this in a reasonable time frame. They have no real barriers and the heads of these companies don’t give a shit about the user as long as they pay their monthly subscription.
could we just like - tactically nuke them?
No need, at least not for several decades. The tech described in the article is millions of times more capable than current working experimental systems. Possible future? yes. Possible within 100 years? maybe. Kind of on the order of a self-sufficient expanding Mars colony of human settlers.
The choice between the chip and a bullet?
Dont expect everyone to sit idly by for either option.
knows you’ll give in eventually
No, I bloody will not.
Yeah, I resisted mobile phones until about 1999, and didn’t get a “smartphone” until 2014. I was quite the Luddite.
I still don’t play mobile games. I thought it was going to be a great opportunity but all the games sucked and I didn’t like the interface.
I will never ever… hahaha okay you rascal, ya got me! Now get over here and stick that junk in my head-meat haha
Can’t wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.
If they can blast in the ads, the need for physical toys pretty much goes away…
I’d take it
That’s a hell of a faustian bargain, good luck with that.
Another tech headline, another thing that would have sounded pretty cool 20-30 years ago but today sounds like an absolute nightmare to stay FAR away from. And this one more than most!
I wouldn’t trust these assholes with a rabid viper let alone my own brain
The only way I would ever even consider this is if the firmware was open source and the software to interact with it was open source and it had no direct connection to any sort of network at all and required an external device that I could turn off or on to connect to it an external network. Oh, and the hardware would need to be open source as well.
Yeah, keep fighting the good fight. Keep demanding transparency, accountability, auditability by ANYONE at ANY TIME in ANY DEPTH. Maybe some day. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tiltuesday/maybemonday.html
It will be proprietary and cloud based, when you skip a payment you collapse on the floor until a family member signs up for extended warranty.
This is so far beyond delusional and out-of-touch it’s insane. Tech bros and giant corporations alike have shown that they are both greedy and fine with enshittifying even profitable legacy products and services. Everything capitalism touches becomes worse and more expensive, because it’s literally never enough.
In the real world I inhabit, people work for a living, and care about each other. Not only would I never install their chip in my brain, I will never even identify my identity online, because that’s the end of the anonymous internet. But even non-techy people I know also would never do this because even they’ve they’ve seen the enshittification cycle time and time again. As for nerds like me, we enjoy sci-fi. But psychos like this are actively trying to speedrun a dystopian sci-fi company and world, which is deeply troubling. It’s like watching Star Wars and wanting to help The Empire control everything…
Too bad I can’t trust either the competence or intent of those with resources to create brain chips. Sorry teenaged me that desperately wanted true VR, but I’ll probably decline it even if it becomes a thing.
I’ll note here that VR goggles were “a thing” 10+ years ago, fast forward to today and they still pretty much suck, like they did back then. Yeah, marginal specs improvements, but the core weaknesses (limited FOV, lower than quality screen resolution, heavy) still apply.
And the fundamental weaknesses, like the disconnect between the game world you’re playing in and the physical world your body needs to play from. You can still run into things in the physical world and pass through things in the virtual world. No physical touch interaction at all from the VR world back to ours, other than vibrations. Still limited by gravity as well as the input devices being used. Can’t really experience non-human shaped things. Hell, even driving around in a vehicle, something VR is relatively good at, isn’t the same because you don’t feel the acceleration and g-forces.
Games like beat saber are the only ones it’s strong at, though I’m sure I’ve done many cuts that would have taken my arm or fatally wounded my legs.
I don’t think I would even trust an open source version that I fully control. Either it would be a pain in the ass to maintain it or it would eventually have some major vuln discovered and lead to people being hacked. Too risky.
