cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702
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screenshot of this bluesky post (which you can read without logging in here) from
@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
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
I guess people with mind blindness or blurry minds will be fucked out of luck on this tech, huh?
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.
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.
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!
Now we need to port uBlockOrigin and SponsorBlock to work with DreamTube, gonna be able to skip ads in my dream
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.
You need to have the premium subscription for that
Even if all of that worked, why would I want it?
Hustle mindset. 25/8 work ethic, baby. It is actually incredibly cool and fun to be a cog in the corporate machine. Liberty! Whiskey! Sexy! They’re giving out the good soma when you work in the Dream Mines, baby! Get with the program!
25/8 work ethic
Yes
I saw the tagline and thought it meant that REM sleep is the next big thing people invest in because sleep is good for your health so they’re selling solutions to boost your sleep quality
Boy was I wrong
Please Choose Your 8-Hour Ad Experience to Continue Your Free-Tier Dream
F u