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I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.
Neurotypical people. Please listen to me. I promise you, with all the ADHD in my body-
You really do not want 1,000 more thoughts.
You may think you do, but you extremely do not.
For real though. That’s exactly how I feel when someone claims that their AI helps because it comes up with ideas for them. Like what sort of dull and unimaginative existence does someone who isn’t bombarded by ideas 24/7 have?! Next you tell me that you don’t constantly fuck up recipes because you got bored and deviated from the instructions for no real reason smh
Those 1000 more thoughts - all advertising streaming directly into your subconsciousness.
backwoods engineering schizophrenia sure sounds like a horror beyond human comprehension…
backwoods engineering schizophrenia
…soooooo…like a 2 week meth binge?
Skipping the AI bullshit… having 1000x thoughts sucks because you can’t act on them. You can’t move or type 1000x times faster to do 1000x things. If brain-computer interface would let you not only think 1000x faster but also do things faster it would be… it might not be terrible.
Your physical body would probably burn out at that speed. Perhaps some substantial speed increases would be in order? 1.5x? 2x? Imagine the friction of going 1000x; in your joints, in your organs; the blood flow, the stress on your heart.
We tried this shit in the 80s with cocaine. Tech bros all just want virtual cocaine.
Obviously I don’t mean physically moving 1000x faster. Probably just the shockwave would destroy your apartment and kill everyone around you.
But if you could access and send information 1000x faster… you could code custom OS in couple hours (days?), you could research anything in microseconds, you could shitpost at incredible frequency…
Banks describes something like that in… Matter I believe. A character uses her brain-computer interface to check the route to another solar system, weeks away, with all the ships she will have take and were she will have to rendezvous with them and she does it in a blink of an eye, without losing track of the conversation she’s having.
Allow me to reframe that. It would lead to more successful decision making. Whatever that might mean, good or bad.
If I could just get something to record all the ideas that come up while I’m in the middle of something and the juices are flowing that would be great. Maybe check my parts inventory to see I have all the stuff I’d need to act on it or look up reference information while it’s at it. That’d be way better than my current strategy of jotting down a quick note and not looking at it again until I’m no longer in the zone and don’t feel like doing anything.
Not putting a chip in my head though, it’d have to be some kind of self hosted thing I could talk to.
Oh, you can’t? For the cheap price of $999.99 (weekly), you can have access to cutting edge AI models which will act on those thoughts for you.
connect your brain to the cloud
not the same sentence as “connect your brain to AI”
They really are planing to force us all as far into the cloud as possible. The cloud is a prison. The cloud is a lie 🎂
LOL The SV crowd attached a computer to a refrigerator and made the whole experience worse.
When I have a 3 or 4+ simultaneous thought train, it’s terrifying and exhausting to me. Let’s not even discuss trying to sleep.
1000+? Executives first.
I know, I know, they’ll pay some very desperate person $40.00 to test; they’ll have to sign an NDA and agree not to sue first, of course.
As much as I spend on meds to stop my brain from spinning up to 1000 ALL THE TIME, fuck this. Just fuck right the fuck off. I’ve come to enjoy sleep. I intend to keep enjoying it.
Why on earth would I want to connect my brain to the cloud when I won’t even let my phone and computers connect to it.
Hold on. If everyone starts having 1000x more thoughts, then they’ll have to start engineering solutions to that.
It’s like when people started pretending they were “gluten sensitive”. Yeah it’s phony, but people with celiac have a lot more options now because of it.
I mean I’m not connecting my brain to any cloud, but maybe a local server and now there’s open source software to organize my mind?
Ok I’m still not doing that. But you get what I’m saying.
Reminds me of the idea that speedster superheroes experience time differently so for them, interacting with regular people is a slow excrutiating torture.
Whats the point of that if those thoughts are just gonna be used for companies to steal more?
