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> maybe our mandatory NeuraLinks are coming sooner than I thought. The founder of NeuraLink has recently proposed to deploy sentient robots to watch criminals,

by delichon 11mo ago

> maybe our mandatory NeuraLinks are coming sooner than I thought. The founder of NeuraLink has recently proposed to deploy sentient robots to watch criminals, removing the need for incarceration. There is a lot of synergy possible here with mandatory neural links. The bot could not only watch us but also press our buttons. "Criminal", being such a flexible concept, should pose little problem to globalizing this paradigm. For one thing, it will make it possible to harvest any number of clicks necessary, so advertising becomes obsolete, and so does content. God, I hope I'm not a prophet.

tonyhart7 11mo ago
I can see this mandatory in a country like north korea where government would gladly use this tech to control citizens from defecting etc but after recent EU balooney request like chat control etc, I cant be so sure anymore
JumpCrisscross 11mo ago
> sentient robots to watch criminals, removing the need for incarceration These are slap drones [1] from Banks’s The Player of Games [2]. [1] https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
Nextgrid 11mo ago
> it will make it possible to harvest any number of clicks necessary, so advertising becomes unnecessary and obsolete But then again, this is already possible, and has the advertising industry shit-scared, thus all the interest in blocking AI-related scrapers since they circumvent the whole “wasting human time” element.
daemonologist 11mo ago
Ah yes, the Culture solution (https://groups.google.com/g/alt.books.iain-banks/c/nbW7GxRQ6eU https://groups.google.com/g/alt.books.iain-banks/c/nbW7GxRQ6...). (Always seemed rather cruel to the drone, to me.)
bgwalter 11mo ago
There are lots of proposals. Recently, he retweeted a pundit who said that murderers should be hanged and that Europe achieved its level of civilization by executing 1-2% of its population for eugenic purposes: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1992599328897294496#m https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1992599328897294496#m
- tavavex 11mo ago
  You know the world is heading in a good direction when the world's richest man with nearly half a trillion dollars is starting to muse about whom he wants to start killing off. You know, for the "common good".

tonyhart7 11mo ago

I can see this mandatory in a country like north korea where government would gladly use this tech to control citizens from defecting etc but after recent EU balooney request like chat control etc, I cant be so sure anymore

JumpCrisscross 11mo ago

> sentient robots to watch criminals, removing the need for incarceration These are slap drones [1] from Banks’s The Player of Games [2]. [1] https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games

Nextgrid 11mo ago

> it will make it possible to harvest any number of clicks necessary, so advertising becomes unnecessary and obsolete But then again, this is already possible, and has the advertising industry shit-scared, thus all the interest in blocking AI-related scrapers since they circumvent the whole “wasting human time” element.

daemonologist 11mo ago

Ah yes, the Culture solution (https://groups.google.com/g/alt.books.iain-banks/c/nbW7GxRQ6eU https://groups.google.com/g/alt.books.iain-banks/c/nbW7GxRQ6...). (Always seemed rather cruel to the drone, to me.)

bgwalter 11mo ago

There are lots of proposals. Recently, he retweeted a pundit who said that murderers should be hanged and that Europe achieved its level of civilization by executing 1-2% of its population for eugenic purposes: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1992599328897294496#m https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1992599328897294496#m

tavavex 11mo ago
You know the world is heading in a good direction when the world's richest man with nearly half a trillion dollars is starting to muse about whom he wants to start killing off. You know, for the "common good".