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[jshackles]

Even if it wasn't medically necessary?

Would you trade the power to do this:

For giving corporations control to do stuff like this?:

Would you be willing to give up the privacy of your own thoughts in order to a) interact with computers better b) play more realistic video games or c) become a corpo zombie?

Since NeoGAF is full of a bunch of technophiles, I'm curious where everyone stands on this one.

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Gonpachiro Kamaboko]

My bank password got leaked online twice already, I sure ain't trusting that thing

 

[Husky]

Fuck no
I won't even visit friends if they keep one of those home AI speakers in their house, no fucking way am I letting anything like that into my head

 

[BigBooper]

Not for entertainment I wouldn't, but if they ever got to Matrix type abilities, I probably would because you'd have a hard time making a living without it once that cat's out of the bag.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Would entirely depend on the cost/benefit analysis. Something that's always connected to some cloud server running Java without the ability to dx for some marginal benefits? Fuck no. Something that I can physically connect/disconnect and doesn't rely on Amazon sending me ads, and makes my life substantially better? Fuck yes.

If it gave me Andorian-like antennae I might go for it even if Bezos could watch me make fuck

 

[GHG]

Fuck no
I won't even visit friends if they keep one of those home AI speakers in their house, no fucking way am I letting anything like that into my head

Do you also not go near anyone with a mobile phone and not own one yourself?

 

[Rentahamster]

Probably. The ability to learn anything in mere minutes would put me at a competitive edge far beyond the non-adopters.

Privacy concerns aren't necessarily worse with a neural implant than they already are now. My main concern would be safety, not privacy.

 

[Mossybrew]

Fuck no
I won't even visit friends if they keep one of those home AI speakers in their house

Look at this guy pretending he has "friends"

 

[Ownage]

Never.

 

[ParaSeoul]

no

 

[teezzy]

Idk maybe

Like a neural implant to improve my memory and attention span, while ridding myself of all the depression and anxiety I routinely suffer?

I'd give it some thought, even if it did suddenly make me crave Arby's #WeveGotTheMeats

 

[Punished Miku]

Really depends on the precise details of risk vs reward involved.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Oh yes, sign me up for the ability for law enforcement, and other government agents to turn off my ability to move with a remote control.

 

[Meicyn]

Really good Deep Space Nine episode where O'Brien goes through two decades of imprisonment and torture in the span of hours via a neural interface.

 

[Halo is Back]

Only if I can be transported to the Matrix

 

[HoodWinked]

Depending on how good it is it may put you at so much of an advantage that you'll need to get it just to compete

 

[Scotty W]

From my cold dead hand…

 

[AgatonSax]

No to OP examples.

Not for stupid Matrix / Oasis stuff or anything online in fact.

To be able to heighten awareness, monitor vitals or control pain maybe.

The Foundation book series have gland implants that can deliver a variety of drugs, recreational or otherwise at will; that would be cool.

 

[EviLore]

If I could modify my brain function at-will, as with Iain M Banks' Culture series.

 

[AgatonSax]

Not Foundation, Culture series.

Edit: Damn, snap!

 

[SJRB]

The next evolutionary step is to live in the machine, blur reality and dreams through natural and bionic means.

 

[jufonuk]

No fuck that

 

[John Bilbo]

No, but I would consider AR glasses if they had Beat Saber

 

[M1chl]

No, I think I am too braindead for that.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Those kind of companies would probably also claim all the rights to any memories you make with their hardware that you'll have to surrender if you stop using their implant.

Hard to imagine worse dystopian nightmares.

Reminds me a little of a scene from Apple Seed (1988)

 

[Georges Chiellins]

If it's from Elon, then yes.

 

[ClanOfNone]

I don't want an implant, I want to escape the confines of this shitty, fleshy meatsack that I'm currently stuck in.

 

[EverydayBeast]

The clock is ticking on humanity to put together robotic electrical parts we'll look back at todays peoples as fools I can't believe I have to hold a piece of hardware up to my ear to listen to a call.

Technology is getting to an elite level, people want to be apart of the public technology implementation.

 

[AJUMP23]

Ditto.

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

Oh ya, I want reddit and Facebook ads beamed directly into my subconscious at all times.

 

[AV]

I think I'd be too scared that something would fuck up and I'd end up in some sort of existential nightmare where my brain lived out a million years per second and I was stuck there for near eternity unable to escape.

 

[clem84]

Even if it wasn't medically necessary?

Would you be willing to give up the privacy of your own thoughts in order to a) interact with computers better b) play more realistic video games or c) become a corpo zombie?

Since NeoGAF is full of a bunch of technophiles, I'm curious where everyone stands on this one.

It wouldn't necessarily have to be this way. The technology could be made to only "send" info for you to interpret, not read stored information.

It would really depend what are the advantages and drawbacks of this technology. I'll just say, seeing how Facebook and Google behave with our info doesn't fill me with confidence.

 

[eddie4]

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[Aesius]

I think I'd be too scared that something would fuck up and I'd end up in some sort of existential nightmare where my brain lived out a million years per second and I was stuck there for near eternity unable to escape.

Agreed. Kind of like the prison in Minority Report. Would be like being plugged into the Matrix, except instead of a clean, peaceful world, you're trapped in a hellish nightmare that lasts for an eternity. And it can be modified at will.

A rudimentary version of this could happen NOW. Imagine if you were forced to wear a VR headset 24/7, and most of the time it was just a recreation of your actual environment, but occasionally someone fucked with it and changed the settings to render horrifying images.

 

[godhandiscen]

Never dude. I am happy I get to live in a time before this is a requirement to function.

 

[synchronicity]

No, personally I'm more interested in minimizing reliance on technology. I'm not suggesting obliterating it, but we will reach a point - if we haven't already - where we serve our technology rather than it serving us.

 

[poppabk]

Fuck yeah, load me up with those chips and nanobots and cyborg arms.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Only a matter of time..

 

[Javthusiast]

Depends on how truly realistic it looks and feels... if you catch my drift.

 

[PuppetMaster]

I would consider it. Depending on the feature set.

 

[PuppetMaster]

A rudimentary version of this could happen NOW. Imagine if you were forced to wear a VR headset 24/7, and most of the time it was just a recreation of your actual environment, but occasionally someone fucked with it and changed the settings to render horrifying images.

That is my world already. Minus the VR.

 

[ultrazilla]

Even if it wasn't medically necessary?

Would you trade the power to do this:

For giving corporations control to do stuff like this?:

Would you be willing to give up the privacy of your own thoughts in order to a) interact with computers better b) play more realistic video games or c) become a corpo zombie?

Since NeoGAF is full of a bunch of technophiles, I'm curious where everyone stands on this one.

FUCK NO.

 

[GymWolf]

Corporations already knows everything about us, you are a fool if you think otherwise unless you are some hermit living in a mountain with no internet or phones.

Gimme all the superpowers please and thank you.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Corporations already knows everything about us, you are a fool if you think otherwise unless you are some hermit living in a mountain with no internet or phones.

Gimme all the superpowers please and thank you.

We know you just want to show it off at the Gym..

 

[GymWolf]

We know you just want to show it off at the Gym..

I'm not a shower when i train, i try to maintain the screams at minimum.

I was thinking more about telekinesis and shit.

 

[BadBurger]

Yes, so that I could devise a way to enter the machine elder brain and assume control.

 

[Wildebeest]

I don't even know what is a realistic outcome for getting a neural implant. Seems realistic to control computers with your brain or learn new senses such as sensing a magnetic field. Mind control? Possible in the sense that a pacemaker is artificially controlling the body for the user. But mind control like a Manchurian candidate? Mind reading? Complete virtual world "brain in a jar" experiences? Manipulation of dreams? Seems far away, at least.

 

[jshackles]

Mind reading?

If your thoughts are being converted into an electronic datastream, and someone else's thoughts are doing the same - mind reading (and shared consciousness) would be similar to any other type of networked access in that scenario.

 

[Wildebeest]

If your thoughts are being converted into an electronic datastream, and someone else's thoughts are doing the same - mind reading (and shared consciousness) would be similar to any other type of networked access in that scenario.

It isn't clear at all that it would work like that. We have a feeling of consciousness, but that does not at all give us full "computer memory" type access to all the contents of the brain. So you get an altered state feeling of shared consciousness if two wired brains were connected some way, but that consciousness would have to disappear if the connection was broken and perhaps no "files are copied".