Is neuralink just another musk meme?

This. Let's not forget that electrical brain control has been done since the sixties in MKULTRA. This is just the refined endgame.

Would anyone here actually put some bullshit in to their brain?

What makes you think you'll have a choice?

My body, my choice.

You only have choice when it's about being a degenerate and about kililng your baby.
Everything else, none. Can't refuse to inject vaccines for exemple.

This.
Tattoos, piercings, getting GRIDS etc - you're choice
flouride in your drinking water - not you're choice

Political science 101: it's not a crime if the emperor made it legal.

Whatever supervillain you want to envision, he or she does not NEED further tech enhancements to achieve population control. They already won. If you want to imagine what a real dystopian government application of neural futuretex would look like, picture a hundred men taking down an entire country while bypassing all of its defenses. Because they probably won't "take down" the country, just bring it under their thumb with Facebook and Twitter which already exist in full force. The average person thinks modern war works how it worked in late WWI. Rule of thumb for modern war: "don't call it a war."

No, the brain runs on electrical signals and this is just the magic moment when it finally hits the market. Musk is a cartoonish supervillain-wannabe but that doesn't mean he's any worse than the rest of the honorless neo-aristocracy.

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That's all business, bud. Still a meme, though.

No, of course not. That's why they're globally putting the brakes on growth. Technology is getting to where they want it, but thar doesn't mean they've ignored the decades of mind control research. I misspoke earlier when I said the sixties. They've been working on this shit since WWII. Mark and Ervin experimented on Leonard Kille specifically in the 60's.

Sciencebros, will we actually get practical, functional implants that boost cognition within the next decade?

You'll lick my boot, labcoat.

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Boosting cognition's probably harder to do than just putting in some bugman internet-connectivity snapchat-vision. My guess goes in two directions-

1. If it needs invasive, dangerous surgery to be put in, people will only have it put in if it's actually worth it- i.e. if it boosts cognition, lets you have a unix shell you can interact with by thinking, boosts memory- if it has a high cost to get, it'll be used by professionals looking to get an edge, billionaires who want to be transhumans, and it'll be paid for by corporations to make their programmers faster (assuming it can do any of these useful things- if it can't it won't exist).

2. But if it can be put in easily and with minimal invasiveness- say, by sticking a flexible pipe up through a vein that deposits the thing where it needs to go, or nanobots you inject that dig into your brain (oof)- once it's easy to get and use, it becomes an iphone, and it'll be used by the masses for instagram filter vision, entertainment, porn, and large-scale thought observation.

I sort of like the idea of having a shell in my head and doing away with screens, but

I cautiously like the idea of a unix shell, or a lisp REPL, or something like that being part of my mind.
I definitely don't want an iphone being part of my mind. Absolutely not.

The last few chapters of the short novel 'Manna' give a good example of the sort of horror this could lead to. The author portrays it positively- as a utopia- where everyone can get a chip in their spine that lets them interface with [basically the internet]... and superhuman AI 'referees' monitor your heart rate and can take control of your body at any time if you're about to do something illegal. The author seems to be in favour of this (I can't be sure, but the character explaining it sounds like his mouthpiece and the rest of the novel gives me a 'written by a socialist' vibe). I'd recommend you read it. It's not bad on the 'is' level, though obviously I highly disagree on the 'ought' level.

marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Here's the story. Now that I look at it again, the writing's not great either. But the first half of the story's pretty great; 'AI' is used to manage wagecucks, and slowly replaces all jobs from the bottom down; what amounts to a facebook conglomerate basically tracks every detail of your life and can decide you're unhireable in an instant.

I'd say the guy's diagnosis is pretty striking- it's just that his prescription is fully automated gay luxury space communism where daddy computer system monitors your thoughts for badthink.

bamp

I'm pro-rape. How does neuralink benefit me?

It rapes your brain with proprietary software. Check it out.

No. They will be used to enslave, not enhance us. Most of the research on intracranial electrodes has been to use them to modify behavior and "fight crime." i.e. create docile compliant cattle.

**Watch this long ass documentary.
youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s
It's a good primer on what we know MKULTRA actually entailed. They give all their references at the end.**

It will rape you physically, mentally, and spiritually. That's three for the price of one!

>youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s
I think that's the wrong link.
I have this documentary, it's called "Social Engineering In The 20th Century", from Scott Noble, made in 2010.
It is stated that the declassified documents goes up to 1973 (don't know if it's still the case today, 9 years later).
Anyway, we're 50 years blind into what is going on.

You wouldn't do it for a hundred extra IQ? If it were as useful as cyberbrains in the ghost in the shell future? Not even if everyone in your field is doing it? Come on. At some point, you may have to, even if there are lots of risks involved.

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Yeah, no wonder you would do anything for IQ points.

Thanks. Sounds interesting. I've been looking for science fiction about the near future, AI's and cybernetics. I'll check it out.

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It sounds good if you look at it naively, like they'd just sell a version that makes people smarter. You'd probably end up with your dreams replaced with blacked.com ads or some other dumb shit like that as a price. Or some dumb software bug where you can no longer taste oranges.

Yep. I hate the way X does copy and paste sometimes. Here's the right one
youtube.com/watch?v=LQucESRF3Sg

it depends, but probably not. the government would just use it for spying and corporations for advertisements

Musk tries to hard to appeal to the reddit audience

That makes sense since citrus lowers IQ.

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