The Chinese tech milestone nobody is talking about: Brain chips
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in reply to Communist • • •remember those people who got implants to get their vision back, only for the company to go under and disable all of them?
alright i don't remember if it was really vision, but you catch my drift. with the floodgates open on the shitty status quo we have atm, we open ourselves up to all kinds of abuse.
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in reply to ☂️- • • •You're right, it was vision.
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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
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in reply to ☂️- • • •even if they shut it down later, it would be worth it to have it for some amount of time.
that's insanely shitty
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Look, I get that this is impressive and all, but as a developer, keep that shit out of my brain.
And this is not a "hurr durr China dictatorship hurr durr SeeSeePee thought control" thing, it's an "I have no reason to think they don't have good intentions but software, no matter how genuinely well intentioned, will NEVER be trustworthy enough for me to connect my brain to" thing. We DO NOT understand the brain nearly enough to even begin to theorise what could go wrong or what kinds of exploits could be done on it. Maybe it's because it's a paradigm shift that I'm not prepared for, but this sounds like absolute security hell and can only go disastrously wrong. And you can't wipe and reinstall your brain when it does, nor does evolution tend to patch CVEs in a timely manner.
Remember that there are ingestible chemicals, a comparatively extremely crude and imprecise way of controlling the brain, that can completely destroy your mental defenses and make you do whatever the attacker wants. Imagine a direct neuron level interface with a computer that can s
... Show more...Look, I get that this is impressive and all, but as a developer, keep that shit out of my brain.
And this is not a "hurr durr China dictatorship hurr durr SeeSeePee thought control" thing, it's an "I have no reason to think they don't have good intentions but software, no matter how genuinely well intentioned, will NEVER be trustworthy enough for me to connect my brain to" thing. We DO NOT understand the brain nearly enough to even begin to theorise what could go wrong or what kinds of exploits could be done on it. Maybe it's because it's a paradigm shift that I'm not prepared for, but this sounds like absolute security hell and can only go disastrously wrong. And you can't wipe and reinstall your brain when it does, nor does evolution tend to patch CVEs in a timely manner.
Remember that there are ingestible chemicals, a comparatively extremely crude and imprecise way of controlling the brain, that can completely destroy your mental defenses and make you do whatever the attacker wants. Imagine a direct neuron level interface with a computer that can scale infinitely beyond the processing power of the brain. Fuck that shit.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •That's fair. That's honestly the optimal use case. But with how fast technology tends to advance I suspect this will get marketed as "everyone should get one and you're basically Amish if you don't" before you know it (even if China's socialist government has regulations on how companies can market stuff, we Westerners don't and it's a matter of time until some Western techbro company contracts this into the next gadget people will judge you for not having.)
People already judge me for being in the tech industry and refusing to use whatever latest app/service that's going viral because I know how easily untrusted software can fuck you over.
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in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •Assistive technology as a back door to normalizing use for able bodied people is a pretty common playbook at this point. AirPods use a ton of tech pioneered in the hearing aid, for example, and a lot of consumers were put off by them initially, but 10 years later they’ve become incredibly normalized.
So as much as I agree with you that people with paralysis are an optimal case, it’s good to be careful about allowing public perception to slowly morph over time
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