To me this title reads more like a capitalistic celebration of potential labor from an otherwise un-exploitable workforce, instead of a celebration of a major breakthrough in giving some semblance of dignity and autonomy to a person who was robbed of it by this terrible affliction.
Yeah, the presentation is a tad dystopian.
Still an eminently cool breakthrough, though I’ve read that BCI’s are hackable and that notion sounds pretty scary.
Yeah, this is fucked up but also neat? I mean, now social security can deny someone with something as debilitating as ALS and tell him to get an implant and go to work??? 😳
So brainrotten, is not an efficient use of acquiring new labour. Work can give people a sense of purpose, this guys job is climate activism so im sure he feels very happy to be able to go back to work.
The lab has built its own software platform for operating BCI devices known as Brain-computer interface for Rapidly Adaptive Neural Decoding (BRAND, which Brandman told us was coincidentally named), which UCD postdoctoral fellow Nick Card built machine learning algorithms for.
Aah… So not LLMs. Makes sense.
Also to the reporter who decided to focus on ‘full time job’ in the title. You focused on 5 hours of work instead of the fact that the patient can now interact with his daughter, who never heard him speak, and also he is able to have conversations with his friends and family. Please be more human.
Editor, not reporter. There’s a total disconnect between the content of the article and the title.
Peak capitalism. The Matrix would be proud
“We told people with a debilitating speech condition to get off the government dole and work a fucking job”
They’re just looking forward to employees that physically can’t leave.
Too soon, bro, TOO. SOON!
Because that’s the only way you can be worth something.
Starts strong but dam, capitalism just sneaks up and slaps the happy right out of ya.
/c/aboringdystopia
I’m sure that patient is happy to find something to do that adds to the general pool of “things we do”.
I also hope that they also say “fuck this”, retire, and do art full time if its their jam.
Yes, screw the working part, but anything else they get from it that they want to pursue I’m all for it. And sure, if they want to do some sort of work, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t have to.
So now you can’t even be paralyzed in peace
Great, now you can suffer AND work!
I gettit, it’s impressive, it will greatly increase their happiness with the little they have, but why conflate this awesome thing with “now get to work, you serf!”?
Work could also mean things like… being able to work on your own stories or books
But hopefully we won’t force them to work for survival though just because they have one of these devices
If you cant work, we will invent solutions!
Work must continue
Proprietary tech with no existing laws telling the companies they have to keep supporting it, all so I can make a rich person richer? Where do I sign up?
[CAPITALISM INTENSIFIES]
r/orphancrushingmachine -I’m not sure there’s a parallel lemmy community.
I mean he’s a pretty cool guy, he does organizing and strategy work for campaigns of people who fight climate change and he’s a climate activist. He’s obviously been afflicted with a terrible illness, but he’s also got some things going for him, despite his families insistence they don’t have generational wealth he did go to Duke so there’s still a good deal of privilege in this claim.
From all accounts it seems he’s fighting the good fight. So it’s a pretty cool thing that’s happened but it’s definitely gonna eventually open the door to awful things because capitalism is evil.
It’s great technology that helps people in need, but I’m worried that one day, they’ll even dig us out of our graves and put us to work.🥶
How else can the Adeptus Mechanicus enable us to serve the Imperium of Man for all eternity?
I Googled Adeptus Mechanicus and now I’m both impressed and terrified. Just hoping the ‘eternal service’ part stays fictional. 😂
