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[–] 7 points 1 month ago

Billionaires desperately want to create slavery again, don't they

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    A little bit scary.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Oh hey! Actual man-made horrors beyond comprehension!

    (Sorry, the fly brain simulation stuff felt so tame compared to this field)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Isn't this literally the plot of The Matrix?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    No in the matrix, smart machines captured humans and used their body heat to work.

    Here dumb humans captured useless human tissue in hopes to run dumb machines.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    good to see work being done on the torment nexus

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    [–] 51 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Don't build the Torment Nexus

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We getting 40k Cogitators before GTA 6

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I mean... could we please not turn to dystopias for ideas?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    We could also refrain from turning to fantasy and sci-fi to look for serious answers on how to develop technology or structure society. They are stories designed to tell a tale that sells copies, not necessarily as accurate or rigorous predictions of things to come.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    A dystopia doesn't have to be science fiction. There are plenty of warnings and social commentary in stories that don't have to actually come true as told in the text to be relevant enough to pay attention and apply it to reality. Are you suggesting that none of any past scifi has ever had anything important to the real world in either technology, application of it, or social dangers?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    That's the idea. Most of this type of media is meant to serve as a warning, not a roadmap. Cyberpunk 2077 isn't glorification of fighting a dystopia, a warning that if we allow this dystopia to happen, we have no option but to fight from a worse position.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You kind of misunderstood why dystopias developed in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Are you saying that life imitates art? What about our collective human nature under capitalism? Wouldn't that in itself bring out the worst in us? Here we are though. I guess how we got here is up for debate. I'm sure it's all melding shades of grey.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    It's all beige. The whole universe.

    But yes, it's a collection of things, and art pulls from different parts of it, or on this topic, from different aspects of the directions we're heading. Our future (present?) isn't Brave New World or 1984 or Solyent Green, it's a mix of all of those messages. Because we didn't listen, or didn't take it seriously enough. Maybe because it's "just" scifi and that never happens. Until it does.

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    Are they taking applications to be the neurons

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Didn’t know we would get the Matrix this fast

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    We've literally matrixed a fly already, and it's wild to me that thats not the biggest news story / ethical discussion of the day.

    Like, we took a fly, sliced it's brain into million of slices, scanned each slice and rebuilt its exact neuron configuration in software, then, ran that software inside a video game engine wiring up the nervous system to the video game character's inputs and outputs, and the fly started crawling around in the video game and drinking sugar water...

    Thats fucking crazy, in virtually all senses of the word.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    or the space station in enterprise, that abducted aliens and use thier brains the same way.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Harlan Ellison - "They did what?"

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    [–] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This feels like the start of a sci-fi novel where everything goes deeply deeply wrong

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    One step closer to building the matrix!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Is it possible for any one neuron to feel or think by itself?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    That's a philosophical question they have no real answer to and why they probably shouldn't fucking do this

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    Thoughts are composed of a large number of neurons, similar to a computer composted of many circuits. There actually is a real answer to the question.

    Should add I’m not trying to be confrontational as you clearly are passionate about this. Just trying to keep it fact based.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    A single perceptron is proven to be able to solve a simple mathematical problem, so I don't think you can hand wave this away by assuming a thought has to have more neurons to be complex enough to be considered a "thought". That isn't a scientific fact or answer to the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    “no.” is a complete sentence.

    nooooooooooooo! is a complete thought.

    is this a box in a lab screaming ‘nooooooooooo!’?

    i have fear for the future we’re sending our youth into.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    The people making these ought to install them in their own head to confirm whether these neurons remember any kind of suffering that may have occured.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I have no mouth and I must scream.

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    [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Ah fuck.

    I think I’d rather be used as a human battery than slop storage 🤢

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, immagine a future where robots hunt human so that they can extract their brains and connect them to biological datacentres. Get 8 billion brains wired together and you have the most powerful datacentre in the world. ;-)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Horrors within my comprehension 😃

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  • 2 comments in c/technology@lemmy.zip view that post
    [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This reads more dystopian than any news before, ever, in my eyes.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    living to see man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

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