With neural implants, we are most likely close to a "Sleep Now" switch for the human brain.
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As long as it works like windows, “update and shut down?” “Yes” “Okay, will restart after updating”
I don't know how serious you're being, but there is a reason it does a restart here. Part of the updates can only be applied after a restart. So instead of: `Update pt1 -> Shut Down -> (wait for power on) -> Update pt2 -> Ready` The "update and shut down" option ...
Don't even joke about the idea that Microsoft should be allowed anywhere near a persons brain. It's a horrible idea to run Microsoft Software on a billboard let alone something that is life or death.
Considering how sleeping is not just brain but neural across your body and also hormonal it scares me what kind of pseudo-sleep state we'd experience with this.
Rick and Morty covered this already
We know what that is: sleep walking. Brain goes night night body goes about its business. The opposite of sleep paralysis (body goes night night and brain is stuck screaming at it to wake up).
Then they start remotely putting you in sleep.mode if you are suspected of a crime or are behind on some subscription or loan.
minority report type thing.
Now cue the dream adds.
Or force you to watch unskippable adverts in order to continue your subscription to iLive ^TM
not really, we aren't really close to anything with neural implants I think. And you'd need to get a specific "sleep now" implant for sure.
Your sleep is coming, you can skip this ad in 5 seconds.
We do have a "sleep now" button with a proper hit in the head, but the "awake button" may not work afterwards.
Yeah, all of them are output based. As in they amplify your brainwaves for a device you're wearing. Lots of medical applications but we're nowhere near having an implant control your behavior.
Yeah but how do you flip it back once you’re sleeping? Set a timer I guess
I would think there would also be immutable fallbacks that function by a deadman’s switch principle. Like for example a module that is physically read only and initiate a wake up sequence if time_elapsed > 8 hours or no suppression signal is received. So basically think of ...
OS glitched, timer failed, enjoy your coma.
[It's not so bad](https://iruntheinternet.com/lulzdump/images/gifs/adventure-time-BMO-changing-batteries-falls-backwards-1382477120j.gif).
The past few years have reaffirmed my position on trusting anyone enough to get that sort of implant. The whole "mark of the beast" thing is eh, I get the concern for security on them, but I wouldn't worry too much. But leaving any opportunity for the elite to have access to s...
I think the most likely is the company goes bankrupt and it loses a ton of features which used cloud services
I'm not letting them put anything in my brain boss.
You only think you have a choice. But soon you won't have to worry about making silly decisions. It will all be done for you based on our AI's best insights.
Elon’s cob job has only succeeded in making sleep forever switches, and cognitive mute buttons. I’m sure they will figure it out before they try to sell it to everyone right?
Based on the animal research results, there's certainly a "sleep forever" mode.
My girlfriend has this skill built in. She can literally be seemingly wide awake, decide to go to sleep, two minutes later I hear the sleep breaths.
You have unfinished tasks and someone else is still using you are you sure you want to shut down?
I've read Lathe of Heaven... I think I'm good on that
The brain is fragile and when it "breaks", the downside is death. "Modern medicine" dealing with epilepsy and the many associated seizure types - We can attempt to treat with diet changes, drugs, treat with the removal of brain tissue, treat with a small number of implant devi...
After seeing how *quickly* AI has gotten corrupt and weird with surveillance the minute a corrupt government is in power, you won’t ever see me trusting some billionaire CEO to put anything in my brain
Oh sure you can have a sleep now button with todays technology as well. Neither current nor future version comes with a wake back up functionality though
So, general anaesthesia but with a terms of service agreement and an over-the-air update schedule.
They already have that in propolfil. One injection and you'll be asked to count from one to ten-you MIGHT make it to one.
I got to five on the last one. Lots of surgeries though
No thanks, no one’s going to convince me that couldn’t be triggered by someone else. Maybe not for a coma, but don’t really want anyone having the ability to put me out at an inconvenient time, even if it’s just accidental signals getting crossed.
No thanks, no one’s going to convince me that couldn’t be triggered by someone else. Maybe not for a coma, but don’t really want anyone having the ability to put me out at an inconvenient time, even if it’s just accidental signals getting crossed.
I know people complain about ai and companies and goverments shutting off our brains but i feel sorry for the children who have strict parents who know how to activate parental controls, and i definetely feel sorry for children with parents who are abusive (of those parental f...
While I am generally not in favor of non needed implants, a brain implant that helps with sleep may be interesting.
We already have a "sleep now" switch its called a gun
Sleep in 10 minutes or watch a 30 seconds ad to sleep now!
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Like the movie "Companion". Why do they always make androids for compliant behavior and sex?
Non compliant robot What is even useful for? fried rice, spicy. Ding! It cooks a ramen.
Because that's how we develop all tech?
Implants are from the 1920s they don't even need implants anymore
Imagine having brain surgery to implant a computer into your brain - and then having the monthly-fees go up 100x! Or the company stops supporting that model. Or your firmware isn't able to update to the newest version, so you're stuck with a buggy beta version for the next 7...
You don't know what "probably" means do you?
Well that would be incredibly helpful for that family that has the prion disease where they cannot sleep.
Then we have to watch unskipable ads before we can sleep.
Elon Musk intends to introduce a subscription feature called “wake up.” It will work 43% of the time. [The other 57% of the time you will slam your face against a floor until you die because the implants drive you fucking crazy.](https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-ne...
where can i sign up for this "sleep now" button? it takes me like 20-40 min sometimes more to fall asleep. and i get bad quality sleep. i want this.
Yeah right. Once you’re plugged in, you finna get AG1 and squarespace ads in your dreams.
[No more Mr. Sleep!](https://tenor.com/view/dark-city-can't-sleep-insomnia-sleep-now-trying-get-kid-to-sleep-gif-9057328678705485293)
We have a ”sleep now switch”. Medicine/gun
No, you need to pay Melon Tusk dollars to have the option to sleep. How else are you going to save the world? XD
hopefully one that can only be controlled by the person that it's on?
How about a Sleep Npw Premium Subscription? Think about not paying for it and every half an hour you get 2 ads displayed directly "inside" your brain
And a warrantless "disable motor functions" for the government. Keep Brain Win10 away from me.
No thanks. What if I don't wake up or the switch breaks lol
Marijuana does that already without any implants.
I think we will all collectively agree the human experience is best experienced… well as a human!
When I want to put my brain to sleep but I accidentally press Update and Restart so I can't sleep for the next 2 hours.
Interrupting your body’s hormonal cycles is devastating to your long term health.
Sleep is complicated and not comprehensively understood. It is an active area of research. I see no possibility of such implants in the near future.
PhD in neuroscience here. We are certainly not.
This would be cool but scary at the same time
Why, with all the evidence of what tech companies, billionaires and governments get up to, would anyone even vaguely sane agree to have any kind of neural implant?? You are just surrendering your life and your self determination at that point.
The already make Ambien and anesthesia so that’s pretty close
I am writing a story about this exact thing right now!
we’ve had sleep now switched for a very long tuna
The Black Mirror episode Common People reinforced my decision to never get a neural implant.
Every time I see headlines about neural implants or technological anything being put in a human body, I'm reminded of the [Story from 2011 about Insulin Pump hacking](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-hat-hacker-can-remotely-attack-insulin-pumps-and-kill-people/). Every tim...
I have been telling people for years that I would pay good money, like $100k if I had to, in order to implant a sleep control switch. Ideally, it would enable me to set a sleep timer as well as control sleep parameters, such as to wake up if the environment is a certain temper...
Absolutely not. Im not getting any neural implants unless we're somehow living in a utopia. I'm not scared that the government is gonna read my thoughts or whatever, I'm scared that I'm gonna miss a payment, and Disney's gonna shut my legs off.
[the Borg have abruptly ceased their attack on the Enterprise] Captain William T. Riker: Mr. Data, what the hell happened? Lt. Commander Data: I successfully planted a command into the Borg collective consciousness. It misdirected them to believe it was time to regenerate. I...
Or being mind controlled by the billionaire owner of those implants.
No the fuck we aren't When did shower thoughts become "baseless speculative assertions"?
We have melatonin pills without neural implant switches
Melatonin is nice, but it’s not even close to a sleep now switch.