• @Allonzee
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    The joke is that something Elon’s companies make actually works reliably.

  • @QueenHawlSera
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    I’d be on board with Neuralink… if Musk wasn’t behind it.

    Think I"ll wait for an open source brain chip

    • @[email protected]
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      It is a really interesting, very scary technology that requires a solid institutional foundation to provide trust. Musk degrades trust, he doesn’t build it.

    • @marcos
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      I’m not sure I’d even trust a fully local open source one.

      The issues about trusting hardware and software development tools all lead to problems here.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 hour ago

    Actual augments like this will never work if they phone home to do their job. There could be massive benefits to people with a huge variety of conditions and interests, but if it’s corpo ware and isn’t hyper protected by medical review, and long term support, it’s junk

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      Just play Deus Ex to see the potential ramifications. That and I know things go to the lowest bidder and I know what developers are like….

      • @samus12345
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        One of many futuristic “dystopias” that actually ended up being far too optimistic compared to reality.

        “This plague…the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.”

        “Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they’ll beg us to save them.”

        Reality: “In the end they’ll refuse to be vaccinated anyway.”

  • @[email protected]
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    133 hours ago

    Okay so for anyone who’s played outer worlds I could see this sort of plot being central to outer worlds 2

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      Probably not, since

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      Starfield

      did the whole mind control implant thing already

      Any way to do a spoiler tag without the line break in Lemmy btw?

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        I mean so did

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        Cyberpunk 2077 ::: that doesn’t mean obsidian can’t also write their own brain control sidequest or whatever.

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          Idunno… I bet

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          Bethesda

          is much more litigious than

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          CD Projekt

  • Troy
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    The problem with the comic’s premise is that Neuralink doesn’t do memories at all. It’s more like a replacement for a keyboard and mouse.

    But sure, I guess: never pass up a cheap shot on Elon ;)