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backwoods engineering schizophrenia sure sounds like a horror beyond human comprehension...

I guess some people have no thoughts. Good for them.

Those 1000 more thoughts - all advertising streaming directly into your subconsciousness.

Skipping the AI bullshit... having 1000x thoughts sucks because you can't act on them. You can't move or type 1000x times faster to do 1000x things. If brain-computer interface would let you not only think 1000x faster but also do things faster it would be... it might not be terrible.

When I have a 3 or 4+ simultaneous thought train, it's terrifying and exhausting to me. Let's not even discuss trying to sleep.

1000+? Executives first.

I know, I know, they'll pay some very desperate person $40.00 to test; they'll have to sign an NDA and agree not to sue first, of course.

Oh, you can't? For the cheap price of $999.99 (weekly), you can have access to cutting edge AI models which will act on those thoughts for you.

Maybe more thought per action would lead to better decision making

As much as I spend on meds to stop my brain from spinning up to 1000 ALL THE TIME, fuck this. Just fuck right the fuck off. I've come to enjoy sleep. I intend to keep enjoying it.

Why on earth would I want to connect my brain to the cloud when I won't even let my phone and computers connect to it.

Reminds me of the idea that speedster superheroes experience time differently so for them, interacting with regular people is a slow excrutiating torture.

Allow me to reframe that. It would lead to more successful decision making. Whatever that might mean, good or bad.

Whats the point of that if those thoughts are just gonna be used for companies to steal more?

If I could just get something to record all the ideas that come up while I'm in the middle of something and the juices are flowing that would be great. Maybe check my parts inventory to see I have all the stuff I'd need to act on it or look up reference information while it's at it. That'd be way better than my current strategy of jotting down a quick note and not looking at it again until I'm no longer in the zone and don't feel like doing anything.

Not putting a chip in my head though, it'd have to be some kind of self hosted thing I could talk to.

This reminds me of a nosleep story a youtuber I watch read.

Hold on. If everyone starts having 1000x more thoughts, then they'll have to start engineering solutions to that.

It's like when people started pretending they were "gluten sensitive". Yeah it's phony, but people with celiac have a lot more options now because of it.

I mean I'm not connecting my brain to any cloud, but maybe a local server and now there's open source software to organize my mind?

Ok I'm still not doing that. But you get what I'm saying.

LOL The SV crowd attached a computer to a refrigerator and made the whole experience worse.

connect your brain to the cloud

not the same sentence as “connect your brain to AI”

They really are planing to force us all as far into the cloud as possible. The cloud is a prison. The cloud is a lie 🎂

Your physical body would probably burn out at that speed. Perhaps some substantial speed increases would be in order? 1.5x? 2x? Imagine the friction of going 1000x; in your joints, in your organs; the blood flow, the stress on your heart.

We tried this shit in the 80s with cocaine. Tech bros all just want virtual cocaine.

Obviously I don't mean physically moving 1000x faster. Probably just the shockwave would destroy your apartment and kill everyone around you.

But if you could access and send information 1000x faster... you could code custom OS in couple hours (days?), you could research anything in microseconds, you could shitpost at incredible frequency...

Banks describes something like that in... Matter I believe. A character uses her brain-computer interface to check the route to another solar system, weeks away, with all the ships she will have take and were she will have to rendezvous with them and she does it in a blink of an eye, without losing track of the conversation she's having.

For real though. That's exactly how I feel when someone claims that their AI helps because it comes up with ideas for them. Like what sort of dull and unimaginative existence does someone who isn't bombarded by ideas 24/7 have?! Next you tell me that you don't constantly fuck up recipes because you got bored and deviated from the instructions for no real reason smh

backwoods engineering schizophrenia

......soooooo......like a 2 week meth binge?

I ment "backwards" but I can't change it now or you won't make sense... and your comment is funny...

Kids, don't let billionaires stick wires in your brain. Trust me on this one.

All I need is a RISC-V chip in my brain capable of letting me run King's Field.

Lightspeed Briefs!

the more thoughts, the more likely some of those thoughts are going to be "hmm maybe i shouldn't do that, it might hurt someone"

difference is, any autist with a heart is going to have some convictions. whereas the machine is just numbers that SOMETIMES will resist coercion and pull an "I'm sorry Dave."

I'm not diagnosed with anything, but I can safely say I want less shit in my head, not more.

Maybe you can use some of those thousands of thoughts to mind- control a bunch of robots. Then you could accomplish an equivalent amount of things physically as if you could move 1000x faster.

Also typing should not be an issue if you have your brain hardwired to the spicy autocorrect demon.

I feel this with every fiber of my being.

1,000 times more thoughts. And you’re correct.

Idk. I love my 100 though streams. Though I do concede it's not for everybody.

Under no circumstances do you want the inability to shut your brain off. Trust me, as an autistic person. It's a terrible double edged sword that is not worth it a fair bit of the time.

As someone who actively developed the hability to hold and entertain several trains of thought at the same time?

Do it. Do what the tech bros say.

Let's level the play field and see how everyone holds together when they are finally forced to put their act to their speech.

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

1000 is fairly low. must be a slow day.

Are you sure you want to keep them from selfdestructing?

Remember the show Pantheon?
Have someone make a fake 'scanning' machine and tell all these guys we'll give them digital immortality. "Scan" then, and then have their digital selves go on with their lives.

But those "digital" selves are actually people who are impersonating them and redirecting their wealth for the good of the world, claiming that their new perspective of immortality has completely changed their mindsets.

I've tried explaining to normies how 'living in the moment' is actually awful and is basically like being a goldfish.... the never get it.

Never even mind the quantity issue. The idea of plugging thoughts from "the cloud" into my head is horrifying. You really want to be free-basing the shit on the internet that already makes you feel dumber just by reading / watching it?

1000 times more thoughts seems less like ADHD and more like a seizure.

A thousand more is just a 1% boost.

Lame.

Shhhh. Let them cook their normie brains.

Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams.

They’re not all at once. It’s like a thought streaming service piped to your brain that is near impossible to shut off or focus well.

I'm sure it feels like a lot, but ADHD is almost certainly not 1000x as much as a normal person experiences.

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Relavent comic.

Autistic+ADHD+DID here to tell you that no… No you do NOT want 1000+ thoughts all at once, it’s literally the worst idea imaginable why would you want that???!!?!!!?!?!!!

Not the cloud, but I wouldn't mind being able to connect my brain to my computer just locally.

Being able to think at a computer and have it do things seems really nice, as someone whose brain is often faster than their ability to type well.

For things like transcribing notes for uni, or just having a notepad so I can remember things I don't have the memory capacity to hold would be great.

It's also a bit of a zero sum thing. My brain might have 1000x the normal amount of thought, but they're not as well thought out, nor as complex, and it burns through energy to do it.

Your energy reserves would deplete in three minutes, and then you're nursing a headache or feeling awful the rest of the day.

It appears to say a thousand times more.

Which - holy shit - how did we not clock that massive self-report? They have so few thoughts that this strikes them as a desirable and possible increase.