Schwim comments on ‘You’ll hold out for a while’: Silicon Valley now pushing to implant chip in your brain, knows you’ll give in eventually

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[–] Schwim@lemmy.zip 83 points 5 months ago (5 children)

AI CEO D. Scott Phoenix laid out a vision of a world in which the chipped enjoy so many advantages of the unchipped that you’ll be forced to comply.

I won't even verify my age online. He can shove my advantageous chip right up his ass.

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[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 22 points 5 months ago

I'm glad I learned that excessive convenience is a bad thing before this became the norm.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 23 points 5 months ago (1 child)

forced to comply.

The language I'd expect from a villain in some fiction aimed at teenagers, not from a real person. This is so bizarre, and the amount of people ok with ceos saying those things is disturbing

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not ok with this. He is KoS unironically.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 5 points 5 months ago

Sounds like someone who has never lived off the land. If anything like this happens you can guarantee there will be communes of people without this like the amish but not so weird.

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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

Doesn't matter.. we all know you're a 47 year old used car salesman from Peoria.

LOL!

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