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.
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- 9 days
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.
- 8 days
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.
- 8 days
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.
- 7 days
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.
- 9 days
Lotsa old people get hip replacements.
Stick to mechanical stuff that cant become enshittified later.
- TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish9 days
Is the hardware and software open source or otherwise not owned by a corporation. Then maybe.
- 9 days
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
- 9 days
Can’t wait to accidentally brick my eyes trying to install an ad blocker lol
- 8 days
No data flow back to my brain
Isn’t that just a current generation prosthetic?
- 9 days
My father ran a prosthetics clinic for 35 years. Before that he worked for his father doing very much the same thing for a decade prior.
His words of wisdom were, “The real thing is always better because you can feel with it.”
We may be able to make materials that far exceed the capabilities of the human body, but until you can wire up every single nerve and use the thing exactly like you would a real limb, prosthetics will ALWAYS be lesser, no matter their capabilities. There’s no point in having sword arms if you can’t be proficient overnight with swinging a blade with your elbow.
But, in good faith, yeah, I’d gladly swap my eyes for something better. Astigmatism sucks, and I’m damn near legally blind as it is. Not having to wear glasses would be amazing. Gimme some Kiroshi Optics any day! But, the only reason I’d want them is because they’d be better than what I have. Wearing glasses isn’t a huge deal.
- marlowe221@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Astigmatism in both eyes over here!
As a kid who grew up on TNG, I always wished my glasses were like Geordi’s VISOR….
Looked into Lasik surgery? My mom had severe astigmatism, and before surgery she couldn’t see the big E on the eye chart without her glasses. She did need reading glasses a few years after surgery though which is why I’ve never looked into it, I’d rather not play the “where are my reading glasses?” game.
Gimme some Kiroshi Optics any day!
I’d settle for some second-hand Hannibal Chews. Bifocals suck.
9 daysIt depends.
If it is somehow able to be powered by the sugars in my body, doesn’t need external recharging, and does not have any network connectivity, especially if it’s an upgrade to what I currently have, probably.
If it fails any of those three tests, then probably not.
- 8 days
Yes, to solve a medical issue or to genuinely improve my existence.
But if we’re talking about something really advanced with software in it I need open source. I’ve already read real news articles about ocular implants where the company that supports them went out of business. Second Sight Medical Products.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to have an implant in my body that’s been bricked due to some corporate bullshit.
For Funsies? Likely not, no.
For medical reasons like steering a prostetic, yeah, maybe.
Yes, just seeing the headline was a yes - but yeah nothing for the brain, just robot arms and legs and eyes for now
Out of curiosity, what advantages do you see yourself getting with robotic limbs? If I were to do a body part it would probably be spine for all around better body support.
Yeah pretty much what you said, better body support to help with aging… fuck that sounds so lame compared to me wanting robotic limbs in my twenties so i could jump really high and punch shit
You would kick so much ass at Beat Saber, you’d be the number one player in like a day!
You know that nut and bolt that’s in an incredibly stupid place and you’d need like 4 adapters and a swivel just to reach it but then you have to also hold the nut in place so you’d need pliers designed by Dr Seuss to be able to grip it without not getting in the way so you just tighten with the tips of your fingers in little wiggles and hope it will hold?
Fuck that, my finger and thumb have the torque of an industrial impact wrench and I can disassembled a fucking train like I’m opening soda bottles.
- gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish9 days
Someone hasn’t played the Deus Ex series…
No. Restoring human-like capability following some kind of traumatic event, sure.
“Nothing voluntary” and “nothing that grants superhuman abilities” are the bare minimum to make sure it doesn’t turn into an arms race, leading to a tiered society with the enhanced elite ruling over the organic poor.
Thats more a capitalism problem though. Literally any technology increases human capability in some way, its just usually not as visceral a way as something that modifies one’s body, and then you still get the issue that those with wealth end up owning that thing and controlling what it is used for to their own ends, which generally dont include sharing that control with everyone else. Theres not some distinction between that capacity increase being external or internal that makes the latter lead to inequality but not the former.
I’m so tired of not being able to have amazing things because a few hundred assholes want to cosplay as Smaug…
As long as it doesn’t require a fucking WiFi connection and corporate account to use.
Yes. But it must be superior to human flesh in every way, we have to have solved rejection, and for limbs, they need to be able to still have a sense of touch. Then I’d like to have a whole closet full of shells I can change daily, like Ghost in the Shell.
I used to be really deep into this rabbit hole. Theres a community of “biohackers” who do stuff like inserting rfid chips and magnets under the skin.
The magnet in the finger tip is what always interested me, but im too much of a chicken to seriously consider doing it because its not a medical procedure (you can’t just go to a doctor afaia and request to have it implanted - theyll just refuse to do it) so you need to do it with local anaesthetics that you can legally acquire, yourself or with a friend.
People who have done it have reported they became able to sense electromagnetic fields once they got used to its sensitivity, which is bizarre and awesome at the same time. They literally gave themselves a “sixth sense”
- 8 days
The magnet definitely intrigues me but I’ve had several fingertip injuries and the pain is not something I’m interested in voluntarily experiencing even though I’m good friends with someone with the surgical skills and anaesthetics.
RFID is also cool but tech moves fast.
- 8 days
RFID is also cool but tech moves fast.
Just install a zipper so you can hot swap
- 7 days
RFID is also cool but tech moves fast.
the golden age of mifare classic is not yet over
