[ExI] Elon Musk wants to implant millions with Neuralink brain chips

[efc at disroot.org]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 at 21:18, efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> Isn't this old news? Haven't people tampered with breaks in teslas and
>> aren't people with pacemakers susceptible to electronic interference?
>>
>> Best regards, Daniel
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> I think the difference is in the scale of the effect.
> People with pacemakers are told to avoid magnetic fields.
> Not many people hack Teslas.
>
> The comparison is with the future when brain implants for virtually
> everyone as they merge with AI will make future populations dependent
> on the devices.  When a device becomes necessary for a
> complete population, security becomes very necessary.

What you just said reminds me of smart phones and the way peoples entire 
lives are inside their phones.

I find it scary. Also, when keeping in mind the security of phones and 
apps on the phones, I find it even scarier that people add all their 
holiest of holies to their phones.

On the other hand, the world is passing me by, since I don't own a 
smartphone, so perhaps all is well after all. ;)

On a personal note, it's pretty common for criminals to cheat old people 
out of their money in sweden (where my father lives) by exploiting the 
fact that all their need is to persuade them to approve a transaction with 
their smart phones.

Since my father is in my camp, he does not have an electronic ID, which 
makes him immune to these kind of attacks. In fact once or twice when they 
tried they just hang up.

And the beauty is that it does not affect his life negatively, while, at 
the same time, greatly increases his security compared with his peers. =)

> BillK
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