Papa Musk unveils Neuralink - Deus Ex fans rejoice
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Better idea: just sign the checks for them, Elon. And let your fucking workers unionize.
Would not be totally surprised if a new member joined up just to accuse people in this thread of pedophilia.
I'd be extremely cautions of anything invented by someone who seems to act like Cave Johnson...
He's completely smitten with all the advanced technology in stuff like Iain M Banks' Culture novels (He's such a fanboy some SpaceX rockets got named after Culture ships), but he's fundamentally misunderstood them. He thinks that the Culture was liberated by it's tech, so him investing in making all this stuff will turn us into a fully automated luxury anarchist utopia. If he'd actually paid attention to the books, he'd have noticed that the Culture is only able to responsibly use a lot of it's tech because it already had anarcho-communist ideals. The same panoply of applied science that makes the Culture so attractive in the books has the potential for horrendous abuse in a capitalist or otherwise hierarchical system, which is an idea Banks himself repeatedly explores. (Example: The penultimate book Surface Detail involves societies which artificially recreate the consciousnesses of deceased criminals in order to perpetually torture them.)
Having only just recently come to terms with the troubles of living and working around biological malfunctions, would rather not have to deal with technological malfunctions messing within the same organ, ta thanks. Also a great multitude of sporadic errant thoughts are incredibly disturbing and would not like exterior surveillance on them either. In fact, any wondrous sci-fi technology has now been mortally tainted with the real and worrying issues of corporate strangleholds entwined through the internet, as it seems none of that technology will be made and supplied without the requirement for a connection.
If you let a man who names his child X Æ A-12 implant a chip in your brain, you deserve what you get, honestly.
Well, if he's going to saddle his own child with a name like that, I don't think he's terribly considerate about what people think about his plans to stick chips in their heads.
I give it at least 10 years before we are in that situation. Hopefully by then people won't be idolizing him that much, and at least he won't have the monopoly of neuralink technology...
I keep being reminded of GATTACA. If you don't get the upgrade, you can't compete.
There'll be a privacy reminder underneath the recommendation from google saying "oops, didn't repress this one enough? Well have you considered our 'selective repression software bundle?' We pinky promise it limits our data collection for the mere price of an overpriced coffee per week!"
I wager people would get used to it fairly quickly given what we've seen of the internet.
If it makes line go up?
As long as the reasons for why performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden in professional sports still exist, that's an unlikely scenario.
The reality is going to be that if we get to the point that we can modify genes for enhanced intelligence, strength, etc. then it is going to be done. At least one jurisdiction somewhere will permit it, someone with the skills and few ethical concerns will set up a clinic there, and people with the means will go to it and have their putative children enhanced. This will eventually erode resistance in a lot of other places, and it will become commonplace.