• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    A good rule of thumb with computers and software is to never touch/buy an alpha/version 1.0 of any system as its best to let someone else sort out the major bugs.

    This is the dilemma people trying to create wetware (brain-hardware interface) face. There will be problems and how the hell any experiments to advance this pass an ethics board is beyond me.

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        1 year ago

        Holy shit that is beyond terrible. It reminds me of something William Gibson would write (tech wise) with the absurdity of Douglas Adams or Kurt Vonnegut mixed in.

        And I can see this sort of thing happening again and again if this tech keeps developing over the next 50 years.

        I would now revise this to never touch any wetware interface for the next 30 years and maybe by then it will be stable.

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        that is just terrifying, imagine just suddenly going back to being completely blind, and then learning noone’s really out there to fix it anymore because the company behind it just went poof one day