I think free software really matters here. I really do not want companies storing the information from a BMI on their servers and I would actually take the time to audit any software to be certain of this.

Free software is a good enough requirement for read-only devices, but I would never use a read-write device that was not also formally verified. This is one of those things where "move fast and break things" means that your customers will break you.

Or... you will break your customers.

To people wondering, this is a 3 minute Corridor Digital video called "Early Access Matrix"

Yeah what I really meant is that you break their customers and then their relatives sue the shit out of you, but it didn't sound as nice.

Didn't Musk talk about something like this in the Rogan interview recently?

Check out https://www.neuralink.com

Wow, keyboard-free programming.

It sounds both incredibly interesting and a little frightening. I'd hate to think of the kinds of metrics that might be applied to professional programmers.

Imo if we develop the ability to connect people with machines in a high bandwidth and high fidelity way the world will change completely.

Even low-bandwidth with good fidelity would change everything.

Mobile devices, for example, would become much more useful.

I’m a bit wary of this idea but I can’t say I haven’t wished for it many times when my wrists are in pain and a deadline is looming so I can’t take a recovery break.

Do I need to think of 260 different keys? Gonna take a while to practise that, and I feel like there is a separte mechanics processor to my core processing motor, so I can think and type at the same time; how do I make sure it’s the other one that brain-types?

  the kinds of metrics that might be applied

Expect open rebellion in a lot of areas. Most of the world is clued into the idea of remote observers posing behind duck blinds with clip boards, it's just that we haven't experienced visceral provocation yet.

This takes the conceptual hazard to another level.

The way it goes down, in order to habituate a mob is to wait for a generation to grow up, having no memory of ever living another way.

Then the real exploitation begins.

So, as with environmental pollution, it's not really our problem, but 20 or 30 years from now? Forget it. Those lives are already ruined.

I do think it could be possible to use an EEG to get ahead of a mouse click faster than the hands and perhaps cut off some milliseconds in delay.

But I don’t believe that Elon Musk’s Neuralink will ever offer anything of value to a non-disabled person. I only hope that in their attempts they create better interfaces for disabled people. Perhaps even get people waking again. For people who can already walk and use a mobile phone I doubt a brain implant will be much use. It’s hard to beat eyes and ears for getting information in.

It's pretty nifty seeing the impetus for high-tech innovation shift from military applications to entertainment possibilities.