Let's put it like this. I'll discard the subsidies, as SpaceX remains profitable (though a big chunk of customers are gov't agencies and subcontractors). But he will never ask less of them.
The issue isn't that they have potential for nefariousness. In some sense it is baked in, and though sounding pious, when society allows these things to shape it, we will get what we deserve. In this case, as computing gets stronger and stronger, we won't be able to opt out of Neurolink.
Sure the disability side sounds great, but that's not where this is going. Already this is being marketed as a consumer device, even teased as a "music streaming device" for your brain. We are at square 1. Tracking the walk cycle on a pig. Predictive algorithms and AI however will, and I have 0 doubt of this, eventually make opting out impossible if a large enough demographic buys in. This coupled with a dragnet of constellation satellites with low latency will make these datapoints in effect online 24 hours a day, anywhere on earth. SIGINT will mean something entirely different, and even if you don't have an implant, enough datapoints around you, with uninterrupted feed will to some degree allow groups like JTRIG and their successors to prevent dissension from ever being a problem again.
It sounds looney, and it implies the intentions for sure. Just remember who runs our government and corporations. Elon is a tool to make these things palettable. We already know from his intro that his implant devices are the most advanced "CONSUMER" devices extant. I don't like to think about what that implies is already in the field.
Oh I agree about the implants. I don't like it but this is something that is going to happen, we cannot stop it. I'm just saying we don't need to instantly insinuate nefarious intentions on everything.
I suppose nothing is technically inevitable (besides death), but realistically we all have to see this is something that will happen. Either benevolent or malevolent this is a thing we will have to deal with.
Let's put it like this. I'll discard the subsidies, as SpaceX remains profitable (though a big chunk of customers are gov't agencies and subcontractors). But he will never ask less of them.
The issue isn't that they have potential for nefariousness. In some sense it is baked in, and though sounding pious, when society allows these things to shape it, we will get what we deserve. In this case, as computing gets stronger and stronger, we won't be able to opt out of Neurolink.
Sure the disability side sounds great, but that's not where this is going. Already this is being marketed as a consumer device, even teased as a "music streaming device" for your brain. We are at square 1. Tracking the walk cycle on a pig. Predictive algorithms and AI however will, and I have 0 doubt of this, eventually make opting out impossible if a large enough demographic buys in. This coupled with a dragnet of constellation satellites with low latency will make these datapoints in effect online 24 hours a day, anywhere on earth. SIGINT will mean something entirely different, and even if you don't have an implant, enough datapoints around you, with uninterrupted feed will to some degree allow groups like JTRIG and their successors to prevent dissension from ever being a problem again.
It sounds looney, and it implies the intentions for sure. Just remember who runs our government and corporations. Elon is a tool to make these things palettable. We already know from his intro that his implant devices are the most advanced "CONSUMER" devices extant. I don't like to think about what that implies is already in the field.
Oh I agree about the implants. I don't like it but this is something that is going to happen, we cannot stop it. I'm just saying we don't need to instantly insinuate nefarious intentions on everything.
Nothing in this life is inevitable but its end. The only way to stop such things is at the root, it is attitudes such as this are self-fulfilling.
I suppose nothing is technically inevitable (besides death), but realistically we all have to see this is something that will happen. Either benevolent or malevolent this is a thing we will have to deal with.