Please drill a hole in my skull and hook wires into my brain Elon Musk, I'm ready.

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Elon Musk recently announced his new project Neuralink. It's a machine brain interface that ultimately aims to create a bridge between the brain and well all of the outside world.

It builds on the technology that's out there right now allowing this sort of interface but apparently boosts it 1000x by some metric that I haven't researched enough to be familiar with.

Whatever, look at a video like the one I posted above to get all the details. I'm here to say, I want it. I want it in my brain. I want it for the world. If I were a scientist, I'd probably be a "mad scientist" because I want to push forward super aggressively and get shit done. Everytime I see someone who is crippled or has some sort of physical deformity, I just think of how awesome it would be if they could just get another physical body. This is the first step. Not to mention the first step to us all becoming more cyborg than we already are. I welcome this.

When Elon Musk was on the Joe Rogan show he said something that stuck with me as he was alluding to this technology. He said we're already cyborgs. We're constantly on our phones and on computers. It's just that our interface with these devices is clunky, we're accessing them with our fingers or controllers, etc. That's pretty inefficient.

What if you could google something by just thinking a question, what if there was no more "learning" to code, only thinking up ideas, and you just download the coding language straight to your brain. What if you could download experiences? A blind person could experience sight, a deaf person could experience sound. The possibilities are pretty insane.

I've always been a fan of anime like Ghost in the Shell and in general cyberpunk sort of stories. I hope people's fear doesn't impede the technology too much.

What do you think? You ready to be a cyborg or are you attached to being a fleshbag? 🤣 Would you ever hook electrodes into your brain for something like this?

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This is how I plan to live forever. I want my consciousness uploaded into a virtual world where I will remain for as long as the lights are on. If I want to see what's happening in the real world, I'll just watch some videos. I mean, that's what I do when I can't be somewhere anyway, so what the hell? Why not.

I'll be able to talk with everyone who's living. Maybe I'll even be given a mechanical body. That'll be cool too because apparently, there will be a lot of jobs for robots in the future.

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I'll be there with you, we can hang out on the virtual beach.

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😳😳😳 I am not ready to be a cyborg 😂

I am even trying to limit how much time I spend with my tech devices.

In a 100 years, this may be possible

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100 years? Human trials start in 2020. By 2030 I want hands free everything.

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I wouldn't just blindly follow anything that Musk is doing. He is not a superbeing of some sort. He comes up with a lot of cool stuff tho, but I would question this technology. However, if this is tested enough and doesn't seem to have any negative side effects I would consider implementing something too.

Additionally, I think that we need to reconnect to nature way more than we are doing right now. All the depression and anxiety is coming from something. I don't think that nature is the cause of that. It's technology.

Also, thanks for the Anime! I'm a big Cyberpunk fan too and I was looking for something like that!

Cheers mate.

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I wonder about that. I know there are studies that find a correlation between people's time on their devices and depression. I think it's probably more complex than that though. Like it probably has to do with what they're doing on the devices, plus a bunch of other variables. In the end, you can't stop the technological advancement, so I just want to try to figure out the best ways to use it.

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It is for sure way more complex than that. A lot of factors are needed to look at to actually answer that question. (I was just saying that Technology is way more dangerous for your mind than Nature is. Nature is very soothing)

There's a healthy balance to use technology for sure! I just can't see that with teens that are growing up. It concerns me a little.

Additionally, I wonder about what frequencies the Bluetooth device is operating on? Wasn't Bluetooth sending signals on an almost radiation like frequency? Wouldn't be that nice to hook that up right next to your brain... but maybe Elon comes up with a better solution for that. Bluetooth seems really outdated.

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My cell phone barely lasts two years before the phone companies start slowing it down, making it buggy, and draining the batteries on purpose to entice me to get a new one. I can't wait till they stay doing that with my brain.

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Introducing the Neural Link X, now with a sharper and more detailed optical camera, 5 pentabytes of local storage so you'll never forget anything ever again.

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Greetings @mildlet

Improving the interfaces between the user and the team is the struggle of many designers, an example was Steve Jobs with his creations.

By improving the interfaces we gain time, with time being the most valuable resource.

Sooner than later that technology will be used daily, being common to see people with robotic peripherals that allow interaction with the environment; the sound, the vision, the speech, the sensations; all can be given through these peripherals

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I want this for all the people that want "repairs" or modifications.

I don't want it for myself just yet, I like my pathetic squishy little meatbag and I'm entirely too paranoid about neurohacking XD

(not to be confused with the type of "neurohacking" that I do which is low level clumsy social engineering XD)

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I want a computer brain interface implanted in my brain...but I'm not sure if I want the first generation...or second...or even seventh. This thing has to exist for years, if not forever. If it has some flaw, you'd have to go in for surgery to fix it, if it was even possible. While it would be awesome to look up things instantly using the web and just "know" things, that probably won't be in the first implants, and the first ones probably won't be able to be upgraded that much.

I'll let others advance it a bit before I risk my own brain.

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