Oh for sure. I’m not a fan of Roberts, and in-game I play as a character that does everything possible to fight the corporate interests.

brain chips are inevitable. They will eventually be safe and useful enough that people will use them.

Nah that’s basic biology

Judging an entire concept in perpetuity based on a single, early implementation is beyond short-sighted.

What do you think about the Soviet Union and CYBERSYN? LOL

You sound like early Internet skeptics.

You’ve inherited a Marvel™ soy version of Calvinism, we are historical materialists, not luddites. We just understand why you’re repeating what you’ve heard elsewhere. I.e

• The Internet (now, brain chips, etc) will be a liberatory force and cause a great awakening

Lol no it just reified existing relations to production. The superstructure maintains and shapes the base, not the other way around.

In the end you’re just waiting for a tech breakthrough to solve climate change without drastic changes to production and labor relations the same way evangelicals are waiting for the second coming of Jesus. The world doesn’t work like that. There is no horizon.

Nothing changes unless you’re operating collectively in the material world and using scientific methods to correctly understand preceding actions and to correctly determine immediate and future actions.

The irrelevant take on brain chips is based on a bare minimum of historical analysis and a respect for relevant fields like biology, economics and history. They are a dead end for the relevant future, i.e the next 100 years max before climate change reverts and deteriorates global modes of production to the point that brain chips continue to be totally irrelevant and probably at that point, impossible to produce.

Liberals believe in infinite growth the same way evangelists believe in God, zero connection to the real world.

I get it, you want brain chip treats.

Don’t expect people to cheer them on, especially if they’re owned and operated by companies ran by and/or . Also, the heat death of the universe is inevitable too; what’s your point about that?

They will eventually be safe and useful enough

I don’t buy into your empty faith in exploitative techbro bullshit inevitably leading toward nicer and kinder things; some technological things can and do get worse over time, especially software, and I don’t see how brain chips from the same techbros would be any less exploitative when capitalism requires growth mandates and that means more exploitative systems and more hostile practices over time.

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/

Judging an entire concept in perpetuity based on a single, early implementation is beyond short-sighted.

Assuming it is both inevitable and will totally be nice to you and give you neat powers is escapist wishful thinking without material analysis.

You sound like early Internet skeptics.

You sound like a credulous NFT investor, complete with the “this is INEVITABLE” chanting and the “everyone will bow to this eventually and praise it” wishful thinking.

Blueberries! It always go wrong at the blueberries!

direct energy? I’ll let it melt adopters brains the same way it melted a bunch of monkeys’ brains and continue not thinking about it. and if anyone tries to push me to get one I’ll tell them to pound sand. no way in hell am I giving a corporation direct access to my brain for literally any reason. we live under capitalism - the only version of any product that will ever get produced is the one that makes the capitalists money. move fast and break things isn’t exactly reassuring when it comes to the only brain you’re ever going to have.

Oh sure. I’m just saying it’s only a matter of time.

I saw your other posts. You really really want your headchip treats and are trying to make them appear faster like some kind of The Secret manifestation mantra.

It’s easier to direct energy than stop it.

Under capitalism, the “directed” energy is the whims of the ruling class, and your chip treats are likely to only be made more oppressive, mandatory to get and maintain jobs, be more surveillance laden in the way Amazon “fulfillment centers” already are, and with worsening subscription mandates and punitive measures for people that can’t pay up.

Your wishful thinking would be quaint if it wasn’t ruinously naive and based on faith in the ruling class because you really, really want the cyberpunkerinos to come true, faster.