Brain-computer interfaces - Works in Progress Magazine
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Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years.
  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    is this the same one that caused patients to go insane and kill themselves, or was it the one that caused debilitating migraines and infections before killing the subjects?

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    69·
    2 days ago

    Big Tech has done everything they can to convince people that they absolutely cannot be trusted with this.

    • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      On the other hand, if done correctly, we could become a federated hive mind and thus finally eliminate lying and achieve absolute empathy because we would be able to feel what the other feel as if it was us.

        • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          12 hours ago

          It might not be that different from using a social network like Lemmy, you wouldn’t necessarily have to be assimilated (in the sense of losing your identity), but you could more easily put yourself in someone else’s shoes, your experience would be augmented. In an ideal world this technology could give you access to my memories and give me access to yours, I would know everything about you and you would know everything about me (no privacy, yes, but no power imbalance either), lying would be pointless and we would be able to feel what each other feels in the way we feel.

          A good part of Humanity’s problems are problems with language, communication, understanding others or rather the lack thereof. A technology like this could literally put us in other people’s heads and thus perhaps help us develop greater understanding and empathy, at least I have hope for this.

          That said, I don’t trust the people running these companies to develop this with the benign long-term goal I’ve described. 🤣

            • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 hour ago

              I don’t think it necessarily has to be that way. That’s what I’m trying to say.

              Now if you ask me what I think would be most likely to happen I tend to agree with you. This technology is already beginning to develop in the wrong hands.

              One thing is certain, it would be a huge transformation.

    • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This is precisely what makes me worry it will be locked behind some fucked up subscription mldel.