• Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Conceptually? I’m all for it. Why wouldn’t I be.

    In practice, we live in a capitalist society and I don’t want an arm that makes me watch an advertisement before I open a bag of chips.

  • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Not against it on principle, but there’s no way I’d get it knowing about the way the corporations that have the resources to make it happen operate.

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    1 year ago

    As a already augmented human, i fully support this.

    Glasses, portable electronic tether, surgery…

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    1 year ago

    Wearable > implantation

    Just a security concern. Augmenting is great but we don’t want the augmentations to become a liability. Obviously there are exceptions to every rule, if we invent a robotic arm replacement for someone who’s lost one, the security concerns are generally lower than the quality of life improvement of having a functioning arm 99% of the time, and there’s an argument for the potential ability for rapid detachment in case of emergency, but once we get into subdermal and brain implants, we’re in a territory where these things can’t be easily removed in case of emergency, and the risks get immense.

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      Depends on the implant. I have to imagine the only way this kind of thing could be adopted mainstream is for it to be open source, the risks are just too high to let some random company put obfuscated proprietary tech in your brain

  • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
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    I am in favour of transhumanism, but I would only want a neural implant if it’s fully open source and not connected to the cloud. It also must not break the skin, because I don’t want infections, especially near my brain.

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I think it’ll be cool in like, 50 years once the technology is there. Right now all it does is kill monkeys.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    This sparks joy: Augmentation to help people become the selves that they would truly like to be.

    This does not: Some kind of transhuman singularity dystopia where we have replaced ourselves not out of a soul-driven yearning for our true self, but in service of a cold, quantitative utilitarian calculus that says we must shed our skin because it is logically inferior.

    • Shikadi@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Both. Everyone is afraid of AI taking over but it’s just a tool. Human augmentation is way more likely to lead there. But in the mean time, Stephen Hawking lived quite a while only being able to speak with augmentations. Just like any other technology, it will be at the very least researched in fear that someone else will first. So might as well embrace it

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        1 year ago

        I’m not afraid of AI taking over. I’m afraid of the TESCREAL suicide cult that wants AI to take over. If they are the ones who ultimately push a singularity button, because they believe it’s a moral imperative to push the singularity button, we’re going to have a really shitty rapture.