Too bad I can't trust either the competence or intent of those with resources to create brain chips. Sorry teenaged me that desperately wanted true VR, but I'll probably decline it even if it becomes a thing.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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I’ve been evangelising for smart glasses for years. But even if they get the functionality I’ve been hoping for I’m still not going to get them, because i don’t want every woman i meet to think I’m secretly recording her tits
There’s no way I’m letting Elon musk do brain surgery on me to harvest my thoughts
So many people are already functionally hooked up, even if it is happening through their eyes and not a direct wire. Prove me wrong, everybody: don’t touch any of your devices for a week. It’s nigh unthinkable now but I remember times when the internet didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist, I had no cable TV, no game console, and would only turn on my little black and white Mac to write a paper for school. We listened to music a lot, socialized in person, smoked a lot of… various things, had a lot of sex. It’s a rather poor trade we’ve made if you ask me.
Those people don't exist anymore.
How anyone could trust them at this point blows my mind, outside of people who need a fucking hail mary like those with neurological disorders.
Idk. I don't know if I'll be able to stop from being a bigot towards people who get chips in their brain. Like I simply do not think I will be capable of holding my tongue. Again, unless the chip is literally the only reason they can live a normal life, those people shouldn't be treated like people.
A report in Politico details a TED talk in Vancouver last month
Oh so it's just rambling musings of some self-important CEO rather than any actual declaration of intent.
There are some good TED talks but a lot of them are just hot air.
Even joking about this, should have your dick be shoved in a woodchipper.
I feel like the bar is extremely low for TED talks these days. But maybe it has just changed to a financial one instead of an intellectual one.
This is me as soon as this happens:
We could be granting everyone in the world a high standard of living but instead we're going to charge them to self-induce early onset neurodegenerative disease.
The worst parts of Severance + Pluribus
If by "for a while" you mean "until I'm dead" . . then yea, sure. Any other definition . . no chance in hell.
Thing is, I remember a time when getting cosmetic surgery / Botox was the "I'd never do that" thing. Now it's getting harder to find people in the public eye who haven't had it.
I think all it'd take is Google/Apple/Meta/MS to normalize the requirement.
Then the neura-zombies get programmed to force others to use it.
The actual article is much more informative than a rando's ramblings.
It's still just a report on things that Sam Altman and his ilk says, it has a much as much validity as Elon Musk claiming that we're going to have cities on Mars by the end of next year. I've never been able to decide if these idiots actually believe the things they are spouting or if they're just trying to get more investment but either way it's not worth paying any actual attention to them.
Assuming we're even on the right path towards superhuman AI (personally I can't see large language models actually leading anywhere) we're certainly only at the start of that journey, it's pointless to muse about what the end would look like because we have no idea what kind of technology will have by the end, it could be a century or more from now.
Regardless the people deciding on that technology will be scientists not rich CEOs with over inflated salaries who can barely wire up a light switch, let alone design a brain implant.
Im pretty sure they're trying to do the H2G2 trick of using the finite probability engine to produce the infinite improbability engine.
These people need to be stopped. Seriously.
Honestly they just say things. If you spend 30 seconds thinking about it it's pretty obvious that no one's going to get a brain implant. It's a brain implant, it's not something you casually decide on a whim.
Also who's doing it, the world isn't exactly a wash with neurosurgeons let alone who would just eager to risk a potential lawsuit carrying out unnecessary brain surgery. Unless the plan is to get robots to do that, but surely we would need the robots before we start talking about the brain chips.
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No, I don't think I will
Over my dead body.
Also, this is laughable:
We’re on the cusp of the next major transition, the merger of humans and AI.
These guys don't even have true AI yet, just a text predictor on steroids that frequently hallucinates and gets things wrong.
It's because they're in so much debt they need to run forward to outrun it by... Getting into even more debt on the basis that this time it will payoff
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Just like we all ran out and bought 3D TVs. Right? And Meta smart glasses. Any day now!
But imagine being able to use shaders to change your perception. Like "I'm going with the Virtual Boy this morning!"
The smart glasses are selling really well tho. Creeps and people wanting to record everything I guess
I was unironicaly planning to secretly record my workspace to be able to do my job better, by analyzing my mistakes in the video, and ripping off other's techniques.
Was too poor, director's grandson beat me to it..
Not if we 1- Forcefully remove 2- Smash to bits every smart glass we see.
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