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  • Magician [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

    That’s some Uno Reverse shit and I love it.

    Also, I didn’t think about how the site still describes Tweets with the same name. Another clever thing that the CEO thought through.

    Side question- How many people do you think would still get a brain chip from him?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      48·
      1 year ago

      How many people do you think would still get a brain chip from him?

      At least as many that are still putting money into Star Citizen.

      • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.eeEnglish
        34·
        1 year ago

        Star Citizen will have its own chapter in the annals of awful history, right before GTA Online and After Rust and 7dayz. I shall title my book ‘Forever alphas a How to make money hand over fist by promising endlessly and delivering little to nothing’

      • Envis10n@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        Hey now, I enjoy Star Citizen when it’s not completely bugging out or disconnecting me.

        Should you pour money into the project though? Probably not.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        28·
        1 year ago

        It’ll only leave a few tens of thousands of people with dodgy brain implants that the manufacturer no longer offers support for and has discontinued updates on.

          • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            I wonder how long it’ll be until someone bombs that kind of place. “They’re literally putting brainwashing chips in people’s brains” seems like serious propaganda fuel.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            Inevitabilism is self-fulfilling prophecy bullshit.

            The “metaverse” seemed inevitable to media hype and inevitabilists like yourself until it went over like a wet fart. Maybe something like either thing will take over one day, but smugly telling people something is inevitable is less than useless.

            EDIT: I originally deleted this comment because I thought maybe I was wrong and that you were just talking about the inevitability of credulous trend-chasing consumers trying to get superpowers with this junk, but it seems you do fully buy into it. cringe

              • grazing7264 [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                8·
                1 year ago

                brain chips are inevitable. They will eventually be safe and useful enough that people will use them.

                Nah that’s basic biology

                Judging an entire concept in perpetuity based on a single, early implementation is beyond short-sighted.

                What do you think about the Soviet Union and CYBERSYN? LOL

                You sound like early Internet skeptics.

                You’ve inherited a Marvel™ soy version of Calvinism, we are historical materialists, not luddites. We just understand why you’re repeating what you’ve heard elsewhere. I.e

                • The Internet (now, brain chips, etc) will be a liberatory force and cause a great awakening

                Lol no it just reified existing relations to production. The superstructure maintains and shapes the base, not the other way around.

                In the end you’re just waiting for a tech breakthrough to solve climate change without drastic changes to production and labor relations the same way evangelicals are waiting for the second coming of Jesus. The world doesn’t work like that. There is no horizon.

                Nothing changes unless you’re operating collectively in the material world and using scientific methods to correctly understand preceding actions and to correctly determine immediate and future actions.

                The irrelevant take on brain chips is based on a bare minimum of historical analysis and a respect for relevant fields like biology, economics and history. They are a dead end for the relevant future, i.e the next 100 years max before climate change reverts and deteriorates global modes of production to the point that brain chips continue to be totally irrelevant and probably at that point, impossible to produce.

                Liberals believe in infinite growth the same way evangelists believe in God, zero connection to the real world.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
                5·
                1 year ago

                I get it, you want brain chip treats.

                Don’t expect people to cheer them on, especially if they’re owned and operated by companies ran by my-hero and/or lord-bezos-amused . Also, the heat death of the universe is inevitable too; what’s your point about that?

                They will eventually be safe and useful enough

                doubt

                I don’t buy into your empty faith in exploitative techbro bullshit inevitably leading toward nicer and kinder things; some technological things can and do get worse over time, especially software, and I don’t see how brain chips from the same techbros would be any less exploitative when capitalism requires growth mandates and that means more exploitative systems and more hostile practices over time.

                https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/

                Judging an entire concept in perpetuity based on a single, early implementation is beyond short-sighted.

                Assuming it is both inevitable and will totally be nice to you and give you neat powers is escapist wishful thinking without material analysis.

                You sound like early Internet skeptics.

                You sound like a credulous NFT investor, complete with the “this is INEVITABLE” chanting and the “everyone will bow to this eventually and praise it” wishful thinking.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            16·
            1 year ago

            I’m sorry you feel that way

            smuglord

            I don’t think there’s any way to prevent it.

            There was no way to prevent Google Glass from being everywhere 10 years ago, until there was.

            It’s going to happen eventually.

            Things that are supposedly inevitable are not necessarily things people have to look forward to if they are shit. newsflash-asshole

              • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                9·
                1 year ago

                direct energy? I’ll let it melt adopters brains the same way it melted a bunch of monkeys’ brains and continue not thinking about it. and if anyone tries to push me to get one I’ll tell them to pound sand. no way in hell am I giving a corporation direct access to my brain for literally any reason. we live under capitalism - the only version of any product that will ever get produced is the one that makes the capitalists money. move fast and break things isn’t exactly reassuring when it comes to the only brain you’re ever going to have.

                • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
                  7·
                  1 year ago

                  That tech cultist probably sees people getting damaged or killed by brain chip treats as some reasonable cost for some magic tech outcome later, “INEVITABLE” and all that, the way that tech cultists see Tesla crashes as always improving the technology somehow.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
                8·
                1 year ago

                Oh sure. I’m just saying it’s only a matter of time.

                I saw your other posts. You really really want your headchip treats and are trying to make them appear faster like some kind of The Secret manifestation mantra.

                It’s easier to direct energy than stop it.

                Under capitalism, the “directed” energy is the whims of the ruling class, and your chip treats are likely to only be made more oppressive, mandatory to get and maintain jobs, be more surveillance laden in the way Amazon “fulfillment centers” already are, and with worsening subscription mandates and punitive measures for people that can’t pay up.

                Your wishful thinking would be quaint if it wasn’t ruinously naive and based on faith in the ruling class because you really, really want the cyberpunkerinos to come true, faster.