cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702
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@comraderobot.bsky.social(“Notorious RBMK”) saying:my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got.
there’s unhinged and then there’s tech unhinged
image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text:
REM sleep is the next Al
The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup
- Controlling a smart home from dreams
- Transferring speech from dreams
- Controlling virtual cars from dreams
- Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants
- Social media for sharing dream journals
- Smart sleep masks powered by Al
- Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech)
Don’t miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors
Aug 29th Palo Alto
Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying “Possible tumblr screenshot” with a “hide” button.
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the guy behind this startup:
- (CW bloody photos) “I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain’s motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming”
- https://www.newsweek.com/russian-implants-chip-brain-control-dreams-hospital-1814256
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This has to be a joke
Can I save a copy of a bout of night terrors I had? I want to be able to relieve that on loop until I’m dead inside.
Hell yeah can’t wait to control my virtual car with my dreams.
I can already do that in my dreams. Though I usually crash it often into something inexplicable.
I make sure to only dream about Tesla’s (they actually work in the dream world)
I don’t doubt that this is “the pitch of the year”. lmao.
Yeah, I totally want a copy of the dream I had last night where someone stole my motor scooter and I was chasing them around a parking lot
There’s a free tier, which means the dream is same but there are billboards all around the parking lot
Possible Tumblr screenshot
What? Why does that need a special notice? Why is that relevant at all?
That label is there because I’m subscribed to XBlock Screenshot Labeller and it misclassified this image. (You can find here and here more info about how labelers in ATP work…)
Ahh I didn’t realise this isn’t twitter, I thought musk must have some weird thing against tumblr or something :)
Reminds me of Hypnospace Outlaw. https://store.steampowered.com/app/844590/Hypnospace_Outlaw/
Better sleep would actually improve people’s lives rather than just making it worse.
I’m sorry but your sleep subscription level does not support Ad-Free Sleep^tm . If you feel you’ve reached this message in error can reach our customer service team during your next allotted REM period.
Our records also show 3 unauthorized attempts to enter REM in the last week. Please remember to pay your unauthorized REM fees or we may have to block REM functionality.
Oh nice, I can control my smart home by dreams?
Me: *sleeps Coffee machine starts making coffee. Me: *sleeps
Can’t wait!
Doesn’t this happen at the end of Dream Scenario?
Seems legit
So will people pay to have Nicolas Cage in their dreams, or will they pay to not have him in their dreams?
Tbh, if it were possible to record dreams or reliably trigger vivid lucid dreams, that could be one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of art, recreation, and psychology. The fact that some startup is trying to grift on the idea with IoT/gig economy bullshit doesn’t change that.
if it were possible to record dreams
mmmm… this is gonna destroy a whole lotta marriages. My wife knows I’m scum so I’ll probably be ok.
It IS possible to reliably trigger lucid dreams, done that. There are a few techniques. It just doesn’t come quickly, would require some “tuning” and practice. Depends on the person of course.
Agree 100%, though the idea of recording dreams would be A privacy nightmare on another level from anything we’ve dealt with before
In the interest of fairness every citizen should have their own mandatory public dream channel on DreamTube.
Shit wait that’ll lead to some people becoming popular DreamTubers. Oh no, Dreamfluencer will become a thing. Quick, burn that timeline to the ground!
These guys are so behind the curve. I’ve already interacted with Dream worlds countless times using this little-known hack called “dreaming.” Look it up, you won’t be disappointed.
Nah, that’s “lucid dreaming”. Children do that often and generally unlearn it while growing up. Grownups usually forget what they dreamt and have no influence on the dream. But ld can be trained.
You’re still interacting with the dream world in regular dreaming, just without relizing it’s a dream.
I actually prefer that, way more immersive, though the script writers are def hit-or-miss
Oh, so they can’t get autonomous driving to work, thus the next step is to get people who are sleeping to steer the cars remotely
But do I get paid for that?
They’re going to ender’s game you. It’ll be pitched as a game or training and it’ll come out it was real cars
I will totally abide by all traffic rules when playing a virtual reality driving game in my sleep. Nothing can go wrong there.
Funny ragdolls!!
Well, in the case of Ender’s Game, that was the point. Trick kids into thinking they were playing a game and they wouldn’t think twice about being as brutal as necessary to win. So if your goal is to have cars murder people, having people control them with their dreams is a pretty good idea.
Barely
