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> ... well, if cheap-and-good BCI comes, there's too many dystopian ways for it to be abused for comfort. I am all for dystopia; already with VR/XR/etc. you ca
by jruohonen 3y ago
> ... well, if cheap-and-good BCI comes, there's too many dystopian ways for it to be abused for comfort.
I am all for dystopia; already with VR/XR/etc. you can probably infer a lot, especially once they start (or have done already?) scanning retina movements and such. But still: stimuli is a one thing and mind-reading (thought control?) is another.
- ben_w 3y agoBCI is literal mind-reading: when the thought goes ping, it shows up on the wire. The current limitation is that the number of sense-wires we can put on a BCI implant is a factor of ~2^30 smaller than the number of synapses in a human brain.