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Is it weird that Gaben watches a cartoon about magical ponies designed for 8 year old girls?
Or do you draw the line at grown men watching thirsty af hags pretending to be anime women on the internet?
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Now we just need to get them to argue over something.
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Hey, other alleged schizo! I bet I could seduce the mother of @Reptilian Infiltrator faster than you could!
Reminder that I will be writing (yet another) complaint to the DOJ once James Okeefe releases his latest expose and posting the answer (or lack thereof) right here in my Kiwi farms thread.
It'll be a good opportunity to demonstrate why we should trust Epstein coconspirator protectors (i.e Kash Patel & Pam Bondi (who sent ghislaine maxwell to jail for trafficking children to no one) to protect US citizens from the religion started by a man who married a 6 year old (and consummated the marriage when she was 9) if nothing else.
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Is it weird that Gaben watches a cartoon about magical ponies designed for 8 year old girls?
I don't like either to be honest. They're all weirdos.Or do you draw the line at grown men watching thirsty af hags pretending to be anime women on the internet?
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You're saying you wouldn't accept our lord and xim/xavior's cranial microchip because he's weird?!
You better watch your tongue. There are Kiwi Farmers who would have you thrown off a building for that blasphemy.
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Valve’s Gabe Newell imagines “editing” personalities with future headsets
“Remember when Bob got hacked by Russian malware [and] ran naked through forests?”Sam Machkovech – Jan 25, 2021 9:33 AM | 164
An artist's interpretation of how future Dota 2 tournament trophies might look if Valve chief Gabe Newell pushes any further into brain-computer interface (BCI) research. Credit: Getty Images / David Jackmanson / Sam Machkovech
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For years, the open secret at Valve (makers of game series like Half-Life and Portal) has been the company’s interest in a new threshold of game experiences. We’ve seen this most prominently with SteamVR as a virtual reality platform, but the game studio has also openly teased its work on “brain-computer interfaces” (BCI)—meaning, ways to read brainwave activity to either control video games or modify those experiences.
Most of what we’ve seen from Valve’s skunkworks divisions thus far, particularly at a lengthy GDC 2019 presentation, has revolved around reading your brain’s state (i.e., capturing nervous-system energy in your wrists before it reaches your fingers, to reduce button-tap latency in twitchy shooters like Valve’s Counter-Strike). In a Monday interview with New Zealand’s 1 News, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell finally began teasing a more intriguing level of BCI interaction: one that changes the state of your brain.
“Our ability to create experiences in people’s brains, that aren’t mediated through their meat peripherals [e.g., fingers, eyes], will be better than is [currently] possible,” Newell asserts as part of his latest 12-minute video interview. Later, he claims that “the real world will seem flat, colorless, and blurry compared to the experiences that you’ll be able to create in people’s brains.”
“But that’s not where it gets weird,” Newell continues. “Where it gets weird is when who you are becomes editable through a BCI.”
How many years until the tentacles?
As an example, Newell throws out a casual mood: “I’m feeling unmotivated today.” He envisions a world where such a state of being is no longer seen as “a fundamental personality characteristic that is relatively intractable to change” and shifts to “feed-forward and feedback loops of who you want to be.”Or, more plainly, “Oh, I’ll turn up my focus right now. My mood should be this.”
Newell uses the phrase “science fiction” a few times in describing this possible BCI-driven future, along with overt references to The Matrix film series. But he also has a sales-pitch example of how mainstream acceptance could begin: with brain-control apps, whose interfaces resemble modern phone apps, for boosts like easier sleep.
“Sleep will become an app you run, where you input, ‘I need this much sleep, this much REM,’” Newell says. “Instead of fluffing pillows or taking Zolpidem, I’ll just say, this is how I want to sleep right now.” From there, satisfied users will tell their friends about, say, sleeping through 12-hour flights “completely refreshed with my circadian rhythm,” he estimates.
Newell uses a personal story to illustrate why he believes brain-driven perspective is so malleable: He had corneal transplant surgery over a decade ago, which changed his perception of color between the two eyes. When his surgery corrected how his eyes saw color, it “perturbed that relationship” in his brain and created ghost-duplicated images until he got used to the change over a span of a few weeks.
Where do you go from there, if brains are so fungible? Newell mentions Valve’s work on synthetic hands as a collaboration with other researchers, then adds, “As soon as you do that, you say, ‘Oh, can you give people a tentacle?’ Then you think, ‘Oh, brains were never designed to have tentacles,’ but it turns out, brains are really flexible.” Why Newell immediately jumped to tentacles as a fantasy appendage is beyond us, but, hey.
In the short term, brain output before brain input
During this surface-level interview, however, Newell is careful not to estimate when such brain-input manipulation might ever come to bear on the market. In fact, he makes clear that he’s not currently in a rush to make it happen, saying, “The rate we’re learning stuff is so fast, we don’t want to prematurely say, ‘Let’s lock everything down and build a product,’ when six months from now, we have something to enable a bunch of other features.”Instead, he uses the opportunity to confirm significant progress on “modified VR headstraps” that include “high-resolution read technologies.” In other words, Valve wants to more immediately capture users’ brainwave activity, either in terms of reducing button-tap latency or understanding how players’ moods shift during a game or app, and get such a device on the market. Newell admits this is more about creating a platform for game and software developers to “start thinking about these issues” ahead of second- and third-generation BCI products.
“If you’re a software developer in 2022 who doesn’t have one of these in your test lab, you’re making a silly mistake,” he adds.
We’re still waiting to hear more about Galea, a headset platform operated by the open-source collective OpenBCI with significant contributions from Valve, which may very well be the first “high-resolution read technology” headset in line with Newell’s proclamations about near-future BCI options in gaming.
In terms of nervous-system measurement, Galea may include EEG, EMG, EDA, PPG, and eye-tracking as options. It’s unclear whether, say, its EEG system would require a perfect connection to your scalp, or if any of its other measurement systems are particularly invasive. Still, we imagine Galea as a whole will be less invasive than Neuralink, the Elon Musk-driven neuroscience product that begins with a microchip connected directly to the human brain.
Trying not to “drive consumer acceptance off a cliff”
The juicier parts of the interview are the much more forward-looking ones, where Newell goes so far as to hint at playing God. If you think that’s an overstatement, look at this quote:Newell is careful to temper such bold statements with the realities of trusting your sensitive data to massive tech firms. If modern-day handlers of your financial and personal data screw that up, Newell points out, “they’ll drive consumer acceptance off a cliff.” And he also doesn’t envision a world where everyone feels required to use BCIs, just like modern-day life doesn’t necessarily require smartphones.
The same scrutiny would apply to potentially invasive BCIs, Newell says. “‘Nobody wants to say, ‘Oh, you know, remember Bob? Remember when Bob got hacked by the Russian malware? Man, that sucked; is he still running naked through the forests?’… People are going to have to have a lot of confidence that these are secure systems that don’t have long-term health risks.” ..."
You will have your personality edited into enjoying my little pony and be happy, bigot.
Failure to capitulate to transhumanist endeavours will be met with excommunication from the global economy for undermining trust in The Current Thing™.
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One's a headcase, and the other one is telling the truth.
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lizardpornography
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How the fuck does this guy not have a mega thread out of spergatory and y am I not unbanned? I gotta like apologize to Josh moon and his mom again or something
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If I were Null, and thank God im not but if I were, Id ensure you remained banned just for that "y" shit.
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No, but also I'm not a gamer.
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It's always fun times when two schizos bounce off each other and they can both immediately recognize the other as being schizo but just cannot put 2 and 2 together about their own behavior.
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It all comes back to theory of mind and game recognizes game.
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Let's try a different approach.
@N A R U v2 what is it that you do in your day to day life? I'm curious how you live. I won't be flaming you for your lifestyle.
@N A R U v2 what is it that you do in your day to day life? I'm curious how you live. I won't be flaming you for your lifestyle.
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I offer practical solutions to the lowest bidder.
I.e Nintendo vs America
Since the American justice system has proven to be absolutely feckless, here's to hoping the Canadian (LOL) or Japanese legal system (
Between Trump's bringing Canadian jobs back to the US, the US tech sector imploding in real time and Phase-Connect becoming one of the big three alongside Cover Corp and Nijisanji, we're ripe for some good old fashioned legally sanctioned nintendo-esque economic lawfare terrorism.
You didn't hear it from me though.
Is that what it is?
Tbf that does explain my attempts to take Valve to arbitration followed by tossing the nuclear lawfare ball to Nintendo when I failed to catch the DOJ's attention.
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Because much like the DOJ, @Null has no game and cannot be expected to recognize mine as such.
You're amongst friends in a drying car wash.
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He does not, as far as we can tell, have any sort of job, social life, or outlet other than conspiracy theories and fruitless attempts at self aggrandizement online.
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I sometimes think you're his
Edit: A more appropriate word would be "Caretaker".
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I love the smell of friendly fire in the morning.
Which, incidentally, is the primary reason I come to Kiwi farms to post FIRE BIRD at 10:50 am.
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