> I’m not worried about any of that. If healthcare can be more widespread, effective, and affordable that’s a great thing. And if someone wants to beam stuff in

> I’m not worried about any of that. If healthcare can be more widespread, effective, and affordable that’s a great thing. And if someone wants to beam stuff into their mind that’s not radically different from watching a movie. I mean this in the most respectful way possible, this is missing the forest for the trees. On their own none of these things looks bad. Putting them together, given what we already know about human psychology and how much it's been manipulated with technology, it's scary. Look at all the "fake news" commentary around certain American elections. Regardless of your political position, the scale at which that sort of thing was happening should give anyone pause. These tools in their current form already allow for that sort of manipulation on a scale we've never dealt with before. What happens when these tools are 10x or 100x better? What happens to the generation of kids and teens being raised to think all of this is completely fine, without any of the privacy / ethics / etc. concerns? What happens to their kids? I know this sounds like "but think of the children!!1" but we've already seen what happens to young kids with things like YouTube: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/youtube-is-causing-stress-and-sexualization-in-young-children.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/youtube-is-causing-stress-an... (2018) > Mental health experts warn that fear-inducing videos affect brain development in young children. https://www.vox.com/recode/22412232/youtube-kids-autoplay https://www.vox.com/recode/22412232/youtube-kids-autoplay (2021) > But child safety advocates and some members of Congress say there’s a problem with the app and corresponding website: an autoplay feature that keeps one video coming after another with no pause or interruption. When one video ends, another video selected by YouTube Kids’ recommendations algorithm automatically plays. Right now, autoplay is on by default, and there is no way to turn off autoplay, so YouTube Kids will continue to feed children algorithmically curated videos that run indefinitely unless someone happens to show up and intervene. Especially with that second case, a small-enough child won't know that it's bad for them. And as parents resort to these apps more and more, as the tools for generating content at absurd scale get more and more accessible, it starts to not look good. You can argue parental responsibility, but American society -- where a lot of this stuff takes root first -- is built around not making that easy, since so many households have both parents working, sometimes multiple jobs.