Valve's new Brain Computer Interface

I have a real empathy for those with non functioning limbs and senses who are on the cusp of receiving the ability to undo that but I think we as a society have to reject these.
I think brain computer interfaces are gonna ruin the world.

There is far too much potential for abuse and they'll eventually become mandatory like phones.

I know the porn will be excellent but it still can't justify the path it'll take humanity down. Mind reading technology is far too dangerous to exist. More dangerous than the atomic bomb.
I am not a luddite of any kind but if I could prevent one single thing from existing ever it would probably be this.
 
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Coolio55 said:
I have a real empathy for those with non functioning limbs and senses who are on the cusp of receiving the ability to undo that but I think we as a society have to reject these.
I think brain computer interfaces are gonna ruin the world.

There is far too much potential for abuse and they'll eventually become mandatory like phones.

I know the porn will be excellent but it still can't justify the path it'll take humanity down. Mind reading technology is far too dangerous to exist. More dangerous than the atomic bomb.
I am not a luddite of any kind but if I could prevent one single thing from existing ever it would probably be this.
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I don't care. I want it. I want now. You can't stop progress.
 
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i feel an intense desire to keep this stuff as far away from my head as possible
the potential of direct brain to computer interfacing is gigantic but the potential for abuse is catastrophic

like, people can't even keep their fucking work PCs secure and free of malware, can't even handle the responsibility of owning something as simple as a phone without becoming complete social media zombies or gacha addicts, and that's just a tiny device with basic visual and audio feedback. the damage that a direct brain connection could do would be cataclysmic in comparison, not to mention the level of mass surveillance and control this could enable.

humanity will probably be better off if we treat this kind of tech like we do fissile material and the machinery used in producing nuclear weapons.
 
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DumbDude42 said:
i feel an intense desire to keep this stuff as far away from my head as possible
the potential of direct brain to computer interfacing is gigantic but the potential for abuse is catastrophic

like, people can't even keep their fucking work PCs secure and free of malware, can't even handle the responsibility of owning something as simple as a phone without becoming complete social media zombies or gacha addicts, and that's just a tiny device with basic visual and audio feedback. the damage that a direct brain connection could do would be cataclysmic in comparison, not to mention the level of mass surveillance and control this could enable.

humanity will probably be better off if we treat this kind of tech like we do fissile material and the machinery used in producing nuclear weapons.
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Shouldn't we give people the choice to use it? I know there's a lot of people that don't care and would like to use it anyways.
 
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I recall DARPA working on a wireless BCI setup that was able to control a flight sim, a couple years back. I imagine something like that would be the best possible outcome. Brain computer interfaces, in my personal utopic vision of them, would massively enable ordinary people to achieve things they otherwise wouldn't be able to, though it's still in far-fetched sci-fi.

It would be a massive boon to people who are creatively inclined but otherwise unable to express their creativity due to a lack of practise or otherwise. Let's suppose you know what you want to create, you can envision it in your mind, but you lack the ability to put pen to paper and make it a reality. BCI's would translate that into some sort of digital artwork that aligns with your artistic vision.

I'm probably thinking way too small-scale and optimistic on the full potential of BCIs.
 
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DumbDude42 said:
i feel an intense desire to keep this stuff as far away from my head as possible
the potential of direct brain to computer interfacing is gigantic but the potential for abuse is catastrophic

like, people can't even keep their fucking work PCs secure and free of malware, can't even handle the responsibility of owning something as simple as a phone without becoming complete social media zombies or gacha addicts, and that's just a tiny device with basic visual and audio feedback. the damage that a direct brain connection could do would be cataclysmic in comparison, not to mention the level of mass surveillance and control this could enable.

humanity will probably be better off if we treat this kind of tech like we do fissile material and the machinery used in producing nuclear weapons.
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DumbDude42 said:
i feel an intense desire to keep this stuff as far away from my head as possible
the potential of direct brain to computer interfacing is gigantic but the potential for abuse is catastrophic

like, people can't even keep their fucking work PCs secure and free of malware, can't even handle the responsibility of owning something as simple as a phone without becoming complete social media zombies or gacha addicts, and that's just a tiny device with basic visual and audio feedback. the damage that a direct brain connection could do would be cataclysmic in comparison, not to mention the level of mass surveillance and control this could enable.

humanity will probably be better off if we treat this kind of tech like we do fissile material and the machinery used in producing nuclear weapons.
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Just install gentoo on your brain stem.
 
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I recall DARPA working on a wireless BCI setup that was able to control a flight sim, a couple years back. I imagine something like that would be the best possible outcome. Brain computer interfaces, in my personal utopic vision of them, would massively enable ordinary people to achieve things they otherwise wouldn't be able to, though it's still in far-fetched sci-fi.

It would be a massive boon to people who are creatively inclined but otherwise unable to express their creativity due to a lack of practise or otherwise. Let's suppose you know what you want to create, you can envision it in your mind, but you lack the ability to put pen to paper and make it a reality. BCI's would translate that into some sort of digital artwork that aligns with your artistic vision.

I'm probably thinking way too small-scale and optimistic on the full potential of BCIs.
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I read about that recently and it creeped me the fuck out.
They got some rat brain cells and grew them on agar. They automatically networked with eachother.
They then somehow hooked it up to a comptuter and got it to control some simple values in a flight sim.
This was in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain–computer_interface#Cell-culture_BCIs
Researchers have built devices to interface with neural cells and entire neural networks in cultures outside animals. As well as furthering research on animal implantable devices, experiments on cultured neural tissue have focused on building problem-solving networks, constructing basic computers and manipulating robotic devices. Research into techniques for stimulating and recording from individual neurons grown on semiconductor chips is sometimes referred to as neuroelectronics or neurochips.[116]
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In 2004 Thomas DeMarse at the University of Florida used a culture of 25,000 neurons taken from a rat's brain to fly a F-22 fighter jet aircraft simulator.[119] After collection, the cortical neurons were cultured in a petri dish and rapidly began to reconnect themselves to form a living neural network. The cells were arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes and used to control the pitch and yaw functions of the simulator. The study's focus was on understanding how the human brain performs and learns computational tasks at a cellular level.
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Maurice Caine said:

What are your thoughts on this? Is this BCI thing gonna be the future? Are we going to plug our brains into machines and live the dream?
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Is this the true Half-Life 3? I mean, they're just kind of asking to be memed, now that Valve's somehow involved in this weird thing.
 
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