• dmention7@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I dunno, being able to get my 8 hours of work in AND get a full nights’ sleep at the same time, leaving 16 hours for leisure sounds awesome to me!

      At least that’s how I’m choosing to believe this will play out, for the sake of my sanity.

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        I’d rather work 8 hours awake and have the lucid dreaming just add to my leisure time tbh. Seems a waste to unlock the dreamworld just to be office drones in it.

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        What kind of work lets you get away with zero social communication and interaction for the entirety of 8 hours a day? Even in the “coding” example, there is a fair bit of collaboration in software development.

        Even assuming this kind of job exists, your corporate overlords will push for mandatory 8hr day work + 8hr sleep work and only pay you 4 hours for it.

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      11 months ago

      Quiet, peasant, and get to dreamwork. Shareholder value isn’t going to increase on its own.

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      11 months ago

      Originally in The Matrix people were the CPU/GPU in the robots system, not the batteries.

      But WB didn’t think anyone knew what those were in 1999

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        Taking advantage of the unique aspects of organic processing would have made way more sense than our convoluted and comparatively inefficient, especially in context, power output. Also closes the loop, at least somewhat, on “why didn’t they make people vegetables.”

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        Oh god, that sounds so much better than the battery idea. But yeah I could totally see regular audiences not being able to understand that. Morpheus really succinctly summed up his argument when he just pulled out a AA battery in that scene. Such a good movie moment.

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    11 months ago

    Ignoring the capitalistic dystopia this represents, I have no interest in letting a techbro ultrasound my brain, especially to be more productive with my work.

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      11 months ago

      People love to think of brain-tech as sci-fi magic that will improve everything, but there’s zero chance it doesn’t devolve into the same profit focused mess we already have with every other tech field. Having even more of my person commodified is not something I’m interested in welcoming.

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    11 months ago

    I mean, even lucid dreaming is still dreaming. It won’t really be a good idea to let unconscious people write code (or anything for general consumption)

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    In all seriousness I really do code in my sleep sometimes. I wake up and remember how to fix something tricky. If it meant I could knock off early I guess I could cope with this 🤔

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      Thing is, your PM wouldn’t have you clocking out at all, if it meant pushing the project closer to completion. You think they’re concerned with your sleep cycle now? This would be even less of a reason to do so.

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    Yeah. that is 100% not why they are developing tech to induce lucid dreams.

    That is just how they got funding for flying sex dreams.

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    If they end up becoming a successful company, that in fact can induce lucid dreaming at will, how long do you think it will be before they start showing us dream ads?

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      it won’t be that hard. I mean, some people can suddenly dream about local milfs/ dilfs available in their area.

      or that one guy trying to reach them about some extended warranty.

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        I’m just surprised I’ve never heard it. But it makes sense with all the wolf t-shirts and car stickers and what not.

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    As long as my sleep counts towards hours worked, and the amount of hours worked stays the same, I could agree to this.

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    This is just the less fun version of hypnospace outlaw, where you can just do basically Myspace in your sleep instead of work. Great video game, big recommend