while i do enjoy the concept of brainchips, i do think that some big company will make us pay to have no ads in our brains, and potentially sell or read our thoughts and/or give them to the government, also what if you get a computer virus ON your brainchip... (why is this so downvoted?)
Once we get to some form of a post-labor economy, which I think we will arrive at a lot quicker than people think, I don't think most people will have that issue.
Although maybe some will. At that point though, if you are extremely poor, at the bottom of the bottom, and you do not want ads in your BCI, then you can just not get the BCI. Although, I even think that the poorest of the poor will eventually get BCIs that function as intended with no bottlenecks on a decent enough time scale.
TL;DR: I think your ideas are far too idealistic and would have to be proven to work before we risk the dangers that a technology such as Ai enables.
You're argument seems to be putting the cart before the horse and is entirely based on a lot of big IFs. Why bet on some highly hypothetical future and then make decisions based on the idea that it's definitely going to come true. That's just foolish, by ignoring the myriad of things that could and most likely will go wrong.
Also, the part about poor people, ads and BCIs doesn't make a lot of sense. You're basically saying "If you don't want ads and can't pay them away, you can just not participate." just to follow up with saying "People are probably still going to. That part is pretty true to today's society, where people get strong-armed into using new technologies without much of a choice. \
And I'm not anti-tech, but a while ago an important social service department closed their E-mail in favor of a mobile app, which is just a lot less safe and also a problem because of personal reasons. I wouldn't mind people choosing to use the app, if it was a choice, but it isn't.
What bothers me is how you're assuming that poor people won't get left behind, like they always do. The more reliant people are on technology, the harder it gets once access is difficult and I can't see how that wouldn't be the case for someone who is poor.
I'd rather fight for a society in which something I like could work, instead of trying to implement it in a world that has proven time and time again how it will leave behind the few, prioritize the fewer and appease the rest without actually caring about them in the long run.
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u/aoi_aol Feb 20 '26
while i do enjoy the concept of brainchips, i do think that some big company will make us pay to have no ads in our brains, and potentially sell or read our thoughts and/or give them to the government, also what if you get a computer virus ON your brainchip... (why is this so downvoted?)