You aren’t thinking deeply enough if you think ads is what they'd do. Electrically connected chips can just zap the pleasure center, conditioning you to a level beyond the word brainwashing.
I think people talk too much about AI apocalypse and too little about neuralink. Neuralink will be the death of humanity in principle, eviscerating whatever hopes of freewill we hoped we had.
Imagine your employer programming the chip to give you pleasure when you work. Imagine autocratic nations implanting it into every newborn, and algorithmically controlling the nation’s thoughts —- leaving propaganda as a laughable, feeble relic of the past.
The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.
On an infinite time scale, I think this comment will not age well, personally. Who knows if it will be Neuralink, but some kind of widely used brain interface seems inevitable to me now.
Who is to say subsequent versions will require anything like the invasive procedures we see today - pacemakers can be installed with keyhole surgery now and so forth, compared to the giant things we put in people in the 50s. People regularly get wireless subcutaneous glucose meters that pair with their phones or insulin pumps installed for diabetes too, the threshold of installing tech in bodies has already been crossed really.
>Neuralink is a thing that will never achieve any sort of mass-market appeal, though, so I'm not nervous.
The only way I see it happening is if not having it becomes a significant competitive disadvantage in the workplace. If it could also stimulate parts of the pleasure center, perhaps that too.
If we reach a point where having brain surgery in order to avoid a competitive disadvantage in the workplace is a common thing, then I really do need to stop and get off of this planet. Things are already dystopic enough as it is.
I think people talk too much about AI apocalypse and too little about neuralink. Neuralink will be the death of humanity in principle, eviscerating whatever hopes of freewill we hoped we had.
Imagine your employer programming the chip to give you pleasure when you work. Imagine autocratic nations implanting it into every newborn, and algorithmically controlling the nation’s thoughts —- leaving propaganda as a laughable, feeble relic of the past.