This just crossed my radar again and... it turns out this startup is not only into non-invasive EEG electrodes: the founder of it self-trepanated last year 😬

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God, I knew Twitter would get even more obnoxious as "X", but

DAE LE TUMBLRISTA SJWS???

I remember a very long time ago reading this guy's blog where he detailed his experiments with polyphasic sleeping schedules. Dude claimed he slept only a couple hours a day, in 20-30 minute increments every 4 hours or something. At the time I just thought it sounded wild and like a kind of cool idea.
Now I just remember how he said it gave him more time to work, which makes me sad.

Actually if I remember it's even worse: they can now use your brain waves from your sleep to make you do certain actions.

Like you could work/be productive while sleeping.

For the low low cost of only $500 a month, REMspace will stop sending sleep paralysis demons to coerce you into upgrading from the free to use version.

This is on-the-nose enough to be a Black Mirror episode jesus christ

Sometimes, the techbro apologism comes from inside the thread.

"Doctor, you have to help me! I keep having this dream where I'm a car, but I'm always just stuck in traffic!"

'Ah yes, the meaning here is quite clear...'

"Is it because of my subconscious dissatisfaction with the meaningless, repetitive grind that my life has become in this techno-hell dystopia?"

'No no no, nothing like that. It just means you need to pony up the $15.99 monthly to upgrade your REM Ember's subscription out of Serf Tier.'

I am gonna go anarcho primitive

Original Cyberpunk 2020 rpg game that came in 1988 had that sidebar bit about people lending their brains (physically) for 5 years to became cybersoldiers, and that was presented as hyper dehumanising.

My dreams stay between me and myself, thank you very much. I don’t want some tech company knowing which fictional character I’m kissing lol

Get ready for hypnospace

This seemed obviously fake, but...it's real.

The intrusion of capitalism into sleep is a final frontier of absolute exploitation. Why work 8 hours a day when you can work 24 hours a day? Why use vast banks of computer servers to run AI models when you can capture the most efficient and powerful 'computer' to ever exist: the human brain. Why provide for housing and recreation when you can lock people in permanent dream states, where they can provide intellectual labor and live in dreamworlds while their physical brain is kept alive through an IV drip.

I am skeptical that any technology trying to directly interface with the slumbering subconscious could work, but I have no doubt that such attempts would be damaging to human health, and would be used to push material imiseration to impossible heights.

CYBERPUNK BRAINDANCE

Live Forever As You Are Now but shittier. Controlling a virtual car better mean that they have a proprietary play-to-earn crypto scam where you roleplay as an uber driver.