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Seems like a nightmare now that I think about it, like you get a ransomware popup beamed into your visual cortex saying: "We are in your brain, wire the conten
by polytely 6y ago
Seems like a nightmare now that I think about it, like you get a ransomware popup beamed into your visual cortex saying:
"We are in your brain, wire the contents of your bank account to the following bitcoin adres: <adress>. If you do not comply, we will blow up your neuralink, if you try to alert anyone, we will blow up your neuralink. We are watching, you have 2 hours, good luck."
"01:59:59"
"01:59:58"
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- zipwitch 6y ago"it was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the ... middle all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who's somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself." -Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
- lightgreen 6y agoThis imaginary problem can be solved by having a hardware off switch.
- antpls 6y agoImagine your brain got so used to the neuralink interactions and benefits that turning it off causes an insurmontable pain (like drugs)
- lightgreen 6y agoSure if someone has two improbable situations combined, they are doomed. But they are more likely to be killed by a lightning.
- Faaak 6y ago/If we sense that you think about turning off your neuralink, we will blow it up/
- lightgreen 6y agoIf we can read your mind, we don't need to ask you to do anything, we will just read all your passwords and do everything ourselves.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoReminds me of https://mobile.twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/285670822264307712?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/2856708222...
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoTo be clear, I don't think this is a solution to either. The entire reason why people suffer from anti-social behavior delivered through computers is that computers are a real part of our world at this point. Simply disengaging may not be an effective way of dealing with it. It's still a funny tweet though.