People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?
Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, which occurs when the person having a dream is aware they are sleeping. The goal is to give people control over their dreams, so they can use that time productively. A CEO could practice for an upcoming board meeting, an athlete could run through plays, a web designer could create new templates—“the limiting factor is your imagination,” founder and CEO Eric Wollberg told Fortune.
Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh
Who needs to work 10 hours a day when you can work 24? Company owners are going to be so turned on by these news.
Also I have to say, I love how the limiting factor is our imagination but all they could come up with is about working more.
Yeah, fuck that, I’m flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.
“Yeah boss … I came up with this really cool solution while I was dreaming but I couldn’t remember it when I woke up so I’m gonna need to get some more sleep hours in to try to find it again.”
And you really don’t have that level of control over your dreams while lucid dreaming.
Almost never had the pleasure, but I believe one of the main tipoffs that you’re dreaming is whatever text you’re looking at will be illegible. And they are expecting coding to happen.
Though the more interesting screw up is there exists any CEO anywhere that honestly believes I’m not going to use this for porn.
Ive heard that too, but I have no problem reading things in my dreams. And I make a note about that in my dreams too. Lol.
One one hand this tech would be fun to play with on your own. But on the other having to work day and night is very dystopian. Come to think of it do any of these corpos ever think that humans are still needed in capitalism. Like if you forced everyone to have the work ethic they desire humans would probably not socialize or reproduce. A break free work world would bring humanity to extinction in the most depressing way possible. Edit: also if everyone is spending all their time working then who would be the customers. Who is going to buy the things these corpos want to sell.
do any of these corpos ever think
No.
I’ve had a small number of lucid experiences and one time I was able to literally do whatever I wanted. Including flight and teleportation. I woke up after what felt like a few minutes though, which was a bummer.
It’s made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.
I just solved a coding problem this morning that I couldn’t last night because I RESTED MY BRAIN. I’m not making this up. This just happened.
I took a week off for Thanksgiving and came back to understand Dynamo DB single table patterns I was stuck on before leaving. Sleep learning is real!
Okay, but Dynamo DB is also pure baloney. Who thought a single table to include every type of entity was a good design? I’m frustrated because it works so well, but boy do I hate using it
I disagree, it’s quite performant and cost effective. I work for a very large software company and it scales to our needs very well. However, it is emphatically not the solution to everything nor is it a replacement for all traditional RDBMS use cases. It also takes a quite different mindset when thinking about your data than when using SQL.
IMO what it does really well is handle being a persistent data store for well-formed REST API endpoints. When you understand your access patterns and implement your GSIs correctly, a RDBMS can’t match the performance even with well tuned queries. Dynamo excels at giving you a record set when you know exactly which set of records you want and it’s based on one or two very simple conditions.
Where it falls behind is for data warehousing and reporting use cases. Dynamo is comparatively slow and inefficient when it comes to asking complex questions about the data. RDBMS systems are built for that use case and as such have extensive tools to optimize whatever wild queries you want to throw at it.
If you’re interested in learning about single table design, which is not good for all cases, check out this video. I’ve watched it quite a few times and it’s been the biggest help in wrapping my head around how to do the data modeling for it. https://youtu.be/KYy8X8t4MB8
Ok my steam deck finally finished updating. Time to go. 😁
Anyone who does this when they’re stressed out knows how awful it is to be stuck thinking about a work problem over and over again and never feeling truly rested.
Often I do not wake up having solved the problem, I simply wake up feeling like the problem is hopeless because I’ve been obsessing over it instead of resting and never solving it
If I can work while I sleep and then not go to my day job…
Employers: “Software Engineers are too expensive.”
Also employers: “Why is our stuff not working?”
“Designers are too expensive.”
“Why are we late and over budget, and it still barely works?”
Great, now I’ll get sexual harassment charges even when I’m sleeping.
The amount of people I’ve had sex with in my sleep… I’d end up with several life sentences I think.
Getting beefbrain so my boss makes a couple extra bucks.
It’s bosses all the way up.
I swear, if I have to start doing work in my sleep, I’m gonna commit a genocide.
I’m not sleeping in. It’s OT.
Expending the whole bed room.
Jokes on you, corpo. I’ll sing the Song of Cthulhu and bring his day of madness ever closer.
The lesser of two evils.
This is both draconian and absolutely removed. Reeks of a venture capitalist who doesn’t know anything about basic biology, psychology, or technology. The lucid dreaming state is not one of intense cognitive performance and reasoning, and even if you were able to do that heavy of a workload while “asleep”, your brain wouldn’t actually be getting any sleep. When you “wake up” you would be absolutely mentally exhausted and have to go back to actual sleep.
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?
That’s some LinkedIn lunacy, for sure. Hard pass.
