Technology

"You'll eventually give in" Tells you everything you need to know about the power of large tech companies in the US .

We have the money and the power to force this technology in to the mainstream. Tech companies know that Congress is way too old, way too corrupt, and way too slow to really do anything about regulating stuff like this in a reasonable time frame. They have no real barriers and the heads of these companies don't give a shit about the user as long as they pay their monthly subscription.

It's not like we don't know the playbook already.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/

Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they'll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.

knows you'll give in eventually

No, I bloody will not.

I don't trust these ghouls to pour me a glass of water, they won't get anywhere near my body

So creeps like Zuck can upload their LLM conscience into my brain? No thank you.

... Actually, that would make a great horror movie.

could we just like - tactically nuke them?

I will never ever.. hahaha okay you rascal, ya got me! Now get over here and stick that junk in my head-meat haha

The choice between the chip and a bullet?

Dont expect everyone to sit idly by for either option.

We will all carry our "papers" around in our bodies.

Can't wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.

Another tech headline, another thing that would have sounded pretty cool 20-30 years ago but today sounds like an absolute nightmare to stay FAR away from. And this one more than most!

The only way I would ever even consider this is if the firmware was open source and the software to interact with it was open source and it had no direct connection to any sort of network at all and required an external device that I could turn off or on to connect to it an external network. Oh, and the hardware would need to be open source as well.

I wouldn't trust these assholes with a rabid viper let alone my own brain

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.

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.

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

That's a hell of a faustian bargain, good luck with that.

AI CEO D. Scott Phoenix laid out a vision of a world in which the chipped enjoy so many advantages of the unchipped that you’ll be forced to comply.

I won't even verify my age online. He can shove my advantageous chip right up his ass.

No, I don't think I will

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.

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.