[polytely]

Seems like a nightmare now that I think about it, like you get a ransomware popup beamed into your visual cortex saying:

"We are in your brain, wire the contents of your bank account to the following bitcoin adres: <adress>. If you do not comply, we will blow up your neuralink, if you try to alert anyone, we will blow up your neuralink. We are watching, you have 2 hours, good luck."

"01:59:59"

"01:59:58"

...

[zipwitch]

"it was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the ... middle all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who's somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself."

-Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age

[lightgreen]

This imaginary problem can be solved by having a hardware off switch.

[antpls]

Imagine your brain got so used to the neuralink interactions and benefits that turning it off causes an insurmontable pain (like drugs)

[lightgreen]

Sure if someone has two improbable situations combined, they are doomed. But they are more likely to be killed by a lightning.

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

Reminds me of https://mobile.twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/2856708222...

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

To be clear, I don't think this is a solution to either.

The entire reason why people suffer from anti-social behavior delivered through computers is that computers are a real part of our world at this point. Simply disengaging may not be an effective way of dealing with it.

It's still a funny tweet though.

[Faaak]

/If we sense that you think about turning off your neuralink, we will blow it up/

[lightgreen]

If we can read your mind, we don't need to ask you to do anything, we will just read all your passwords and do everything ourselves.