Slavoj Žižek: Elon Musk’s desire to control our minds is dehumanizing and not what is needed in a socially distanced world
>And so, the prospect of Neuralink ideally fits the vision of a new society in which we will be bodily isolated, living in protective bubbles, and simultaneously sharing the same mental space. In our psychic lives, we will be closer to each other than ever before, immersed into the same space.<TFW we're 1 step away from GiTS or Instrumentality
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499626-slavoj-zizek-elon-musk/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkL0QwLllw>Before Elon Musk says that AI is going to destroy humanity<Now he's trying to connect human brains to the internet
I'm sure that everybody is aware of Elon Musk and his epic narwhal bacon redditor escapades. Recently, he has debuted a device that can both track and apply apply stimuli directly onto the nervous system.
The results of the reveal have been predictable. The comments on the video are filled with an army of the iPhone bonded, normalfag, wealthy lords of the Walmart/Gamestop combo store that inhabit Reddit. The threads are all ogling at how futuristic and useful the device is, with a few comments about it's like le cool cinematic cyberpunk!
The described reactions above detail the process of manufacturing consent:
A malleable and easily manipulated class of professional "intellectuals" guided towards a conclusion by the financial powers that be. Be it through laziness or aligning interests, the managerial class parrots ideas of a very small elite while squawking orders and mimicking the voice of a silent majority. The ideas being reddit memes and metal things that are to be put in your brain, you are forced to accept this narrative for social credit scores; Ex: employer wants a look at your profile before they hire you. It's ironic that Westerners whine about China's social credit score system. It was all here in the West already, just done by corporations. Banks and insurance companies literally create a social score for you based on big data, and then decide your fate based on what's most profitable for them.
But what drove Musk and the market to something as inhuman as inserting an internet chip into a brain?
The stagnation of the internet eras boom and the logistical tracking abilities it had offered.
From the 1970s to the mid 2010s, wireless changed the way the world worked. The US navy employed it, Project Cybersyn happened, Apple and Windows computers ruled, general ease of coordination and tracking was changed. Now, all of that is gone. The US military is back to using radar based boats to fend off guerillas, Cybersyn died with Allende, Apple is stagnant and only kept alive by the federal reserve and Windows 'competition'.
Meanwhile DIY transhumanists have already done this kind of thing with nerve endings outside the brain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0WIgU7LRc The brain is plastic enough that you can adapt to a new signal
Tracking people and goods is more complicated due to demand rising of service levels, encryption has become the rule of thumb for anyone actually working with tech. Even the CIA struggles despite massive NSA networks. The result of this is a direct in-out channel logistics tracking device placed in your skull for efficiency and surveillance (with 10s of thousands of atmosphere cluttering satellites). Great for manipulating people too: chip detects when you are looking at an ad from 'candidate A' and triggers waves of nausea; if you watch a campaign ad from 'candidate B' it triggers a release of serotonin and dopamine. Perfect manufactured consent and electoral manipulation through operant conditioning. The device has some proof-of-concept with animals and mind-control experiments.
Magnets could be used in assault. It probably would make people vulnerable to EMP weapons which can even be home-made. EMPs don't need nukes, there are single use EMP-generators that use regular explosives, it's possible to have 1 produce a pulse to fry the brains of a city. The EM noise from a taser held next to someone's head might lobotomize them.
>Why would an EMP do that, it would just kill the device.It's like a lightning rod wired directly into your brain. You can see 4 long wires connect the wireless adapter behind the ear to the electrode arrays higher up on the skull, enough to induce several thousand volts in the milliamp range, it will fry most of your axons and scar your synapses. Everything with electronics will be susceptible to magnetism otherwise it won't be able to transmit electrical signals. There is no known material that blocks magnetic fields without itself being attracted to the magnetic force. Magnetic fields can only be redirected. To do this, high-permeability shielding alloys are used. The magnetic field lines are strongly attracted into the shielding material.
To fix the design: Replace the electrical wires with a optical fibre with tiny optical-signal to electrical-signal converter, you mau be able to avoid having long conductors, vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses. You can probably put a computer chip into your brain that is powered by a thermal differential, while computationally very simple it would give you perfect math skills and probably considerable amount (a few hundred kilobytes) of very accurate memory for information that can be stored with simple file formats. This would not need any conductors that are long enough for a EMP to induce electrical pulse destructive to either your brain or the chip. It would literally be just a chip with a few exposed electrodes. So small that you could barely see it with the naked eye, and it could probably be injected into your brain via a blood vessel probe, so that you don't need to make a hole into your skull.
And all the troglodyte "progressive" tech-fags are like
>Shut up Slave put the chip in ur skull. Dont want to be """"Reactionary""""" 'le boomer'!<It's just controlled release medication
>anti-depressantsNeeded primarily because of the nightmare capitalism we live in.
>helping workers receive [anti-depressants] when they are under the most stress [read: having the worst time, namely, working].How about making a robot that makes work not be utter hell by eliminating said work, instead of releasing numbing medicine when shit gets though.
>Wirelessly broadcast schedulesby whom? Mr. Steven Pinker, the best friend of Bill Gates and Epstein?
>Human ingenuity is truly boundless!Enthusiasm of making people endure un-endurable situations. Literally keeping the working population subdued and complacent with chemicals.
It is not a neutral technology. If you think anything in psychiatry (and science in general) is "neutral", you haven't been paying enough attention. However it's probably going to be a gigantic improvement for healing blindness and deafness, and give back motor control and touch sense perception for people with spinal injuries. So it COULD BE useful technology should we get rid of the worst parts of society and humanity. Resisting mass surveillance and proprietary, privacy restricting software should be of higher priority for socialist orgs. Not in an anprim sort of way, but more along the lines of what Richard Stallman talks about. Technology in the hands of the bourgeoisie only serves as another tool to suppress opposition, sabotage movements, disseminate propaganda. Another thing to worry about is the pacification of the working class via social media and mass entertainment: bread and circus, except it's super addictive and manipulative.
CIA and other mind control stuff
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01070R000301530003-5.pdf https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html https://nypost.com/2018/12/11/cia-once-secretly-implanted-mind-control-devices-in-dogs-brains/ https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000600340001-4.pdf https://www.newsweek.com/cia-mkultra-documents-files-remote-control-dogs-1250519 https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/article/2018/06/the-world-of-insect-cyborgs/12087 What a Brave New World
http://archive.is/zHEho