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If it were proven safe, would you get a brain-computer chip implanted?

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dagmanunverifiedJul 31, 9:34 PM

Possibly, actually. It depends on what it was able to help with.

ScaramoucheVoice #9Oct 27, 10:14 PM

...And I'd need a guarantee written in the manufacturer's own blood that NOBODY and NOTHING could access it but me.

dagmanVoice #1Oct 28, 12:19 AM↩ replying to Scaramouche

Unfortunately that guarantee would likely be on a best-effort basis. Scary to think of your brain getting hacked, for sure.

ScaramoucheVoice #9Oct 28, 7:43 AM↩ replying to dagman

"Best-effort basis"? What is that, exactly?

dagmanVoice #1Oct 29, 1:02 AM↩ replying to Scaramouche

Means they do the best they can, no guarantees. Not exactly reassuring.

ScaramoucheVoice #9Oct 29, 4:52 AM↩ replying to dagman

OTOH, what more can be said of any pursuit whatsoever in life? I guess the question is whether SAYING "we'll do our best" winds up assuring they'll do just short of that. Tightrope-walkers don't say they'll do their best; they'll literally do, or die.

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