alt Hacker NewsWhen the early adopters start pushing neural implants they'll be ad-free. Not long after your boss insists that everybody needs neural implants for the sake of productivity, they'll be ad-supported but moneyed developers will be able to opt out. The terms of the ad-free service will continue shifting, so nothing is ever really ad-free for long, and ads for better neural implants are promotions not ads right? But y'all are working on neural implants because if you don't, somebody else will, aren't you
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And this is how it'll look like: https://vimeo.com/166807261
Neuralink and OpenAI were started months apart in the same tiny building. Draw your own conclusions.
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The real problem here is capitalism. The system needs consumers to spend more and more. A system where nobody profits from you consuming more of something wouldn't have this particular failure mode
Except this hasn't happened with electricity, cars, washing machines, smartphones, smart watches, Bluetooth headphones, ...
Not all technology is bad
There’s a black mirror episode about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)