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Not interested in exposing my literal thoughts to our privacy-deprived digital world, thank you.
by _bxg1 6y ago
Not interested in exposing my literal thoughts to our privacy-deprived digital world, thank you.
- anitil 6y agoI've heard the argument that if the choice was between your brain and your phone, your phone more likely to give up juicy secrets and accurate information.
- waste_monk 6y agoMy phone doesn't have direct read access to my thoughts and memories. A neural interface would, and the ability to extract information from my brain only limited by the software running on it. Or rather, if someone could figure out a way to read my brain and use it for targeted advertising, they would do so, and my thoughts could be leaked as a consequence. Currently access to brain scan hardware is limited, but once neural interfaces become a commodity it will be a lot more accessible and I'd expect we'll see a lot of rapid improvement in that area. Similar to Microsoft's Kinect - it was a commercial flop but it's highly prized for research and hacking. Given the sheer number of vulnerable medical devices that are both vulnerable and directly capable of killing people (pacemakers, insulin pumps, etc.) I would be willing to bet we see someone killed remotely via a compromised neural interface within 5 years of it becoming available for retail.