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If it works too well we could find ourselves in a situation where anyone who uses their brain for a living will need 'enhancements' like this just in order to c
by jcadam 10y ago
If it works too well we could find ourselves in a situation where anyone who uses their brain for a living will need 'enhancements' like this just in order to compete and be employable (even if they aren't strictly legal).
Much like cycling and doping :)
- newsbeagle 10y agoBrain enhancement is coming to sports, too: http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/olympic-athletes-try-zapping-their-brains-to-improve-sports-performance http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/oly...
- throwanem 10y ago> anyone who uses their brain for a living will need 'enhancements' like this just in order to compete and be employable I presume you've heard of coffee...
- messe 10y agoThere's a saying that a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. It's dual is that a comathematician is a device for turning cotheorems into ffee.
- throwanem 10y agoI've worked with mathematicians, but never heard that one before. Thank you! Now I know the origin of the one about programmers being devices for turning coffee into code.
- balnaphone 10y agoAlfréd Rényi : "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems".
- return0 10y agoMore likely, the people on top of the money chain will use it to improve their minions.
- kafkaesq 10y agoWhich is, of course, precisely their business plan.
- cleaver 10y agoThe 21st century version of "16 tons"[1] becomes "16 terabytes" and the refrain becomes: "I owe my soul to the company stor[age]". [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk