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This is why SF should be mandatory reading in high school. People can't even grasp the consequences of tracking cookies and we are going to sell them stuff to p
by sametmax 7y ago
This is why SF should be mandatory reading in high school. People can't even grasp the consequences of tracking cookies and we are going to sell them stuff to plug in their head.
- inflatableDodo 7y ago>we are going to sell them stuff to plug in their head. Correction, we are going to give away free stuff to plug in their head, with advertising. We'll also sell high end without marketing impulse technology (TM), but that will be a minor sector.
- adrianN 7y agoWhy sell advertising when you can directly trigger the pleasure center whenever the user thinks of the brand?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoThat's what we'll call advertising.
- sametmax 7y agoThese guys read loads of SF, hire them for the marketting dep.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoNahh, it just appears in my head from somewhere in the cosmos via beams of purple light.
- svantana 7y agoYou mean like the free booze we get at company events?
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- yoz-y 7y agoI have worked in the field for 8 years before. This technology is far too immature to be useful beyond medical application. One day it might be used for reading or writing thoughts, but I am quite convinced that this is decades away. But really useful prosthetics are in our reach and such technology could transform many lives for the better.
- sametmax 7y agoIn hyperion, the AI are very useful to the general population... Safety nets should be placed now, not as an afterthough.
- yoz-y 7y ago> In hyperion, the AI are very useful to the general population... Yes, but there is also a large gap between a general purpose AI capable of generating teleportation portals and a device barely capable of discerning electronic noise from the brain signals. > Safety nets should be placed now, not as an afterthough. I agree. However: 1. Many of people working on this do read a lot of SF. 2. Initial motivation for BCIs is to bring the dream of being able to walk/talk/interact with the world to people who were deprived from it. 3. The whole purpose of non invasive interfaces is to not need to jack anything in. This is important mainly because there are prohibitive safety nets around anything that goes inside a person's body. Especially in this case do not overestimate the usefulness of reading brain waves. For example, in absence of disease, it is currently impossible to identify people using their EEG. This being said, I am somewhat concerned about the writing part, mostly because I have seen experimental protocols which seemed to hand wave quite a lot of potential issues.
- jdpigeon 7y agoWhat is SF?
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- supergauntlet 7y agoScience fiction. The poster you're responding to I think means that the common philosophical issues brought up in science fiction aren't being thought of by the creators of this technology in advance. Basically, they're too preoccupied with whether they could, and not thinking about whether they should.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoProduct design's first draft.