A Chip is Coming Into Your Brain

[Ifreann]

Remember that those sorts of Christians thought that barcodes were the mark of the beast.

It's not the mark of the beast. It's just a new piece of tech.
Doesn't stop it from potentially being abused though.

The Mark of the Beast requires physical implantation or indention onto or in the human body.

Christians thought that barcodes on their person were the Mark of the Beast. Highly advanced RFID chips (beyond merely unlocking doors) embedded in the body, if compulsory, are the Mark of the Beast,

Remember, the Mark of the Beast is universal. Any voluntary implant, such as this, is designed to socially engineer mankind into accepting universal usage of the Mark.

No one is designing anything according to Christian apocalypse prophecies.

[Salus Maior]

Very cautiously optimistic.

[Thermodolia]

Remember when Elon Musk was going to turn the Earth's crust into a honeycomb of hyperloops, changing personal transportation forever? Remember when he was going to fix Flint's water? Remember when he was bragging about how his cybertruck was bullet resistant but then smashed the windows easily? I would sooner trust my health to someone in the streets claiming to be a wizard than this overhyped buffoon who has fallen for his own con.

You’re a wizard Iffy!

[Pilipinas and Malaya]

I’m passing on having that stuff in my head, thank you very much. There is the big concern that the devices could cause new issues or even be manipulated to cause the issues it solves. While I could potentially be open to the idea in the future, I don’t have any thoughts about changing my stance on this matter soon.

[Pilipinas and Malaya]

The Mark of the Beast requires physical implantation or indention onto or in the human body.

Christians thought that barcodes on their person were the Mark of the Beast. Highly advanced RFID chips (beyond merely unlocking doors) embedded in the body, if compulsory, are the Mark of the Beast,

Remember, the Mark of the Beast is universal. Any voluntary implant, such as this, is designed to socially engineer mankind into accepting universal usage of the Mark.

No one is designing anything according to Christian apocalypse prophecies.

Conspiracy theory. I’d dismiss it.

[Thermodolia]

Fiction is useful for exploring the downsides of potential new technologies, but it would be silly to wholly write off a field of technological study just because once someone told a story where they had that technology and it was bad.

Science fiction has been phenomenal at predicting the future and been warning us about the dangers of certain technologies for years yet scientists refuse to heed such warnings

Do you really think that those movies didn’t have scientists and other experts weighing in on the movie during production?

[Salus Maior]

I’m passing on having that stuff in my head, thank you very much. There is the big concern that the devices could cause new issues or even be manipulated to cause the issues it solves. While I could potentially be open to the idea in the future, I don’t have any thoughts about changing my stance on this matter soon.

I would say don't get these sorts of things outside of medical necessity.

[Aeritai]

Yeah I'm not sure about this... I'll pass on having a chip be in my brain.

[Katganistan]

Remember when Elon Musk was going to turn the Earth's crust into a honeycomb of hyperloops, changing personal transportation forever? Remember when he was going to fix Flint's water? Remember when he was bragging about how his cybertruck was bullet resistant but then smashed the windows easily? I would sooner trust my health to someone in the streets claiming to be a wizard than this overhyped buffoon who has fallen for his own con.

Flint's water is still not fixed?

How many years? Literally?

[Xmara]

If this could treat a bunch of medical conditions, then great. But it shouldn’t go beyond that.

I am also concerned about other potential issues it could have. What about hackers? What if it malfunctions?

[Valrifell]

Science fiction has been phenomenal at predicting the future and been warning us about the dangers of certain technologies for years yet scientists refuse to heed such warnings

Do you really think that those movies didn’t have scientists and other experts weighing in on the movie during production?

Even if the production didn't have that, scientists are also huge nerds who would definitely design something to look like a thing they saw on Star Trek. Science fiction inspires actual science, sometimes.

[Thermodolia]

There is a pretty good analogy of how would AI will likely present a danger to humanity: "In a hurry, you told the self-driving taxi to go to the airport as fast as possible. You arrive at the airport covered in vomit, with police cars surrounding you on all sides."

I mean considering how Google maps already knows the speed limit of practically every road in the contiguous united states (at least), I find it hard to believe a self-driving car would permit itself to break the law at the behest of a user.

They really don’t. I drive for a living and 90% of the time google maps has either no data on the speed limits or gets them very wrong

[Valrifell]

If this could treat a bunch of medical conditions, then great. But it shouldn’t go beyond that.

I am also concerned about other potential issues it could have. What about hackers? What if it malfunctions?

Hopefully augments would have an offline option to make hacker's hacking more difficult.

If it malfunctions then you'd have to get it fixed like any other implant or you'd just straight up die, such as when a pacemaker goes wrong.

[Necroghastia]

Okay this sounds kinda cool actually, there's some concerns but-

Elon Musk

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE GET THAT SHIT OUTTA HERE

[Salandriagado]

I'm already in a minority of my immediate family in not having some form of electronics in my head, so I don't see why I'd say no.

[Valrifell]

Remember when Elon Musk was going to turn the Earth's crust into a honeycomb of hyperloops, changing personal transportation forever? Remember when he was going to fix Flint's water? Remember when he was bragging about how his cybertruck was bullet resistant but then smashed the windows easily? I would sooner trust my health to someone in the streets claiming to be a wizard than this overhyped buffoon who has fallen for his own con.

Flint's water is still not fixed?

How many years? Literally?

Seven, the decision to pipe water from the corrosive Flint River was made in 2013.

[Salandriagado]

AI is an existential threat.

About as much as any child is. Also, there's no AI here.

This is a threat to freedom.

I don't see how.

It's also on a par with Edison electrocuting an elephant for publicity.

Except not in any way at all.

[New yugoslavaia]

No one is designing anything according to Christian apocalypse prophecies.

Conspiracy theory. I’d dismiss it.

Conspiracy theory stemming from a extreme part of a faith based off a really old book from the time when the world was poorly understood, I might add.

[Salus Maior]

Flint's water is still not fixed?

How many years? Literally?

Seven, the decision to pipe water from the corrosive Flint River was made in 2013.

How difficult is it to fix one town's water?

[Salandriagado]

People keep saying that this is the mark of the beast. Is this true?

No, and going forward, you should apply extreme suspicion to any and all claims made by anybody who said such an utterly absurd thing.

[Valrifell]

Seven, the decision to pipe water from the corrosive Flint River was made in 2013.

How difficult is it to fix one town's water?

Well, actually it seems that their lead levels fell back to well within Federal guidelines in 2018.

[Aureumterra]

Amazing

[Geneviev]

People keep saying that this is the mark of the beast. Is this true?

It could be. If it's forced on people, I think it might be the mark.

[San Lumen]

Science fiction has been phenomenal at predicting the future and been warning us about the dangers of certain technologies for years yet scientists refuse to heed such warnings

Do you really think that those movies didn’t have scientists and other experts weighing in on the movie during production?

Even if they did some scientists seem keen on creating things in some of those films.

[Salandriagado]

Having seen the film Upgrade I’m going to give this a hard no

Why the flying fuck are you basing medical decisions on fucking fiction?