Not necessarily a neuralink specifically, just any genre or type of cybernetic implants, if they were or will become available. I’m super hesitant on anything interfacing with my brain so I’d probably stay organic, except like if I lost my eyesight or hearing.
Only if they’re open source, and even then its a big if.
It would need to have a firewall, only allowing outgoing requests
Absolutely not
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058
These people permanently changed their bodies in ways that will have lifelong impacts (as one example they can never have an MRI) just to be abandoned.
My brain immediately went to cybernetic titties and I got lost thinking about what they might do.
Have you seen the people that use high powered LEDs on silicon implant to turn them into a light show?
I have not… So… Disco-titties?
Yes. I’m chronically ill with a lot of issues. I’d go down to Maelstrom’s territory at night alone and wiggle seductively. “Oh no, please don’t force chrome on me Mr. Maelstrom guy.”
Realistically, I have ADHD so having a neural interface to make sure I didn’t forget shit would be so helpful. I wouldn’t trust most devices though. It’d have to be free of the possibility of being enshittified, so I’d only be comfortable with it if I controlled the software.
I get a kind of chafe, like that of clothes that don’t fit, for the normal function of my own body. Like some other arm I’ve never used is tied behind my back. So yes, but the cost matters more.
If I die younger for it, not worth it. If I give up my sovereignty to an amoral entity for it, not worth it.
So no hack jobs and no corporate bs, but non-invasive opensource projects like openbci and openmuscle? Awesome!
For it to be more mainstream I’d really support a well ran cooperative that supports these opensource projects and customers that have them.
No way. If RoboCop or Cyberpunk is anything to go off of, trusting a company to supply parts for your own body is not a good idea.
Besides, I’ve always liked my equipment in stock form, to really appreciate it for what it is at its core.
Any mechanical only part without software. Nothing from head or spine.
Tail.
I remember a thought from CGP Grey that went along the lines of…
At some point cybernetics will be like smart phones; people look at you weird if you don’t have one.
He also said self driving cars where “here” in 2014. Not sure he’s that prophetic.
I refer to my CGM as “my cybernetic implant”, so I guess I already have one?
I’d need to completely own it. I don’t want my extended memory storage to now also include product placement in my childhood memories or the cops can make my bionic legs stop working or whatever.
However, in the hypothetical situation where I completely own my augmentations, 100% I’m getting enhancements. In fact I would question the efficiency of giving me implants, it might just be easier to copy my brain into a completely robotic body.
The downside of copying your brain is that it’s a copy, you’ll have your original meat body and a separate mechanical body which minds which immediately start to diverge. They’re both still you, but meatman gets no upgrades. You could destroy your meat body as part of the transfer but then it’s reasonable to say you’re dead with a robot that thinks it’s you.
The closest you can get to a proper transfer would need an implant which works similar to how your body naturally replaces cells, the implant would gradually take over neurons until you have a fully mech brain which can be transplanted to a new body. You could argue that’s still just a destructive copy but I think it’s within most people’s tolerance.
Yeah but speaking as meatman I’m okay with meatman dying. Robot me will be the real me, meat me is ephemeral.
I don’t believe in souls. I view my existence as like a wave, I am briefly in this cohesive form and will inevitably break upon the shore and both cease to be a wave yet forever be the ocean. Continuously moved and reshaped and never the same wave I was.
A body that allows my perception of existence to continue would prevent that, I would be able to continue to “exist” as I perceive it for much longer.
So yeah for me at least you can skip the gradual stuff. Just ctrl + c, ctrl + v and recycle the original.
How would you feel about your continuity if more than one robot copy/replacement is made? (at the same time all based on the meat version I mean, not as future replacement/upgrade bodies)
I’d be cool with it as long as they’re all autonomous. From my sense of continuity I continue to exist and there are other copies who share my experiences as meatman up to the point in time where we received our respective robot bodies. It’d be like gaining siblings. From their point of view they continue to exist and there are other copies like myself out there as well.
I’m also okay if I woke up in my robot body and found out I’m not the first copy. Knowing myself it would be more of a “fun fact” that someone is the original rather than something that carries any sort of weight.
Which robot would be you and which would be “the other copies”? I would imagine that from the descendants’ pov they’re all “you”, but I wonder if you would identify yourself with one over the rest 🤔
If the descendants continue to collaborate in perpetuity, maybe “you” is the swarm.
I think we’d just view it as a matter of perspective. To me, I’m me and they’re them. To them, they’re me and I’m them. We’d each identify ourselves as me.
But we would probably also enjoy being considered a swarm, I know I would.
Imagine experiencing a scism with yourself 😅
most people’s tolerance.
Most people do not have an existential crisis over whether a teleporter is teleporting them or killing and remaking them. It’s mostly a small subset of people who have that worry.
I’d be like Mr. T in space. You’d never get me onto one of those transporters unless I was dragged there while unconscious.
meatman gets no upgrades
Crack my skull and spine open, pull out my brain and nervous system and put it in the robot.
Lotsa old people get hip replacements.
Stick to mechanical stuff that cant become enshittified later.
RIP if you need a pacemaker
Better pay your subscription
Hip replacements with a step counter coming soon
Is the hardware and software open source or otherwise not owned by a corporation. Then maybe.
No.
I’ve seen how often tech breaks, gets controlled, becomes unsupported, and can never really get things “right.”
But like you said, if it’s that or blindness, sure. But I’m not chopping off good parts.
I’ll take blindness… at least I can still tell them to feknoff when they try to sell me more trash
I would need a few things met:
- No data flow back to my brain
- Open source
- Not flagged as disallowed by TSA
- Programmable (kind of goes with OSS)
- Actually useful
- Extremely minimal maintenance
If all of these were met, HEEELLLL YEA
Can’t wait to accidentally brick my eyes trying to install an ad blocker lol
Oh man, I just wish I had an eye based blocker right now. These political ads in the states are bleeding into my no ad watching life
No data flow back to my brain
Isn’t that just a current generation prosthetic?
