Comment by nephihaha
18 days ago
Neuralink has various potentials. One of them is that it becomes obligatory or even mandatory... If you don't get it, you'll be accused of being a luddite. It will probably start as a medical tool and progress to there.
The problem is that you are giving away access to your mind, one of the last private spaces. That means your thoughts can be stolen (think AI scraping but worse), or advertising put in your dreams. Perhaps even used to reprogram your mind etc.
> One of them is that it becomes obligatory or even mandatory...
Given how smartphones have percolated society, I fear you may have a point, but I think that might be the slippery slope fallacy.
It's a pattern. Technology doesn't always mean something is better. Sometimes it does, but not always.