Neuralink

The joke is that something Elon's companies make actually works reliably.

The joke is also that the burning car was a Tesla, and if Elon could, he'd push a patch to copy/paste his face onto any memories of firefighters found in a Neuralink customer's brain
I was gonna say Tesla but he actually bought that company, and it doesn't do as well anymore

I'd be on board with Neuralink.... if Musk wasn't behind it.

Think I"ll wait for an open source brain chip

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.
- Yeah if a bug or a hardware failure can make me see nightmare spiders everywhere or send a signal to my pain centers, that's a permanent no.
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.
- His maga fanboys would ram a rusty nail into their skull if he tells them it's the hot new shit.

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

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….
- 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."

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

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?
- 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.

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 ;)

The problem with the comic’s premise is that Neuralink doesn’t do memories at all.

Elon Musk says you could save and replay memories with Neuralink

‘The future’s gonna be weird’: Musk says memories could be downloaded into a new body or robot
- (just like Black Mirror)
  
  Technology's red flag.
- He's also said that full self driving mode is just a year away... He's said that 10 years running.
  
  He also said we'd be on mars by 2021.
  
  ...and here's a 20 second clip where he lets on that he knows it's all a grift...
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRxuOG-zNE
no. this is a cheap shot.