☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 23 days agoCharles Lieber, a Harvard scientist who got arrested for lying about his ties to China, has defected to China to continue experimental brain researchwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down10cross-posted to: world@quokk.auworldnews@lemmy.mlworldnews@lemmygrad.mlworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up199arrow-down1external-linkCharles Lieber, a Harvard scientist who got arrested for lying about his ties to China, has defected to China to continue experimental brain researchwww.reuters.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square41linkfedilinkcross-posted to: world@quokk.auworldnews@lemmy.mlworldnews@lemmygrad.mlworld@lemmy.world
minus-squarechgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agoNot if you have technology akin to magic. Not saying this will happen but there are definitely billionaires fantasying about it and them trying and failing can still have outcomes.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·22 days agoSure, people can fantasize about all kinds of stuff, but what matters at the end of the day is what’s materially possible.
minus-squarechgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoI think it matters that there are billionaires talking about staffing their bunkers with brain chipped workers and security and that there are billionaires owning companies developing brain chips.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days agoI expect the US will implode long before this sort o thing comes to fruition.
Not if you have technology akin to magic.
Not saying this will happen but there are definitely billionaires fantasying about it and them trying and failing can still have outcomes.
Sure, people can fantasize about all kinds of stuff, but what matters at the end of the day is what’s materially possible.
I think it matters that there are billionaires talking about staffing their bunkers with brain chipped workers and security and that there are billionaires owning companies developing brain chips.
I expect the US will implode long before this sort o thing comes to fruition.