oh shit, where did I see this? I saw something with this, a documentary maybe? A video essay? a philosopher said it somewhere? where do I know this from!?
I think you mean the quote that is seen often from her, which is very similar and goes something like "Its [capitalism] power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
That quote is apparently from a book by Mark Fisher. I've heard about it somewhere lately, but can't pin point where.
Capitalism is so much the fucking worst
The research required for this could instead do things like idk work to rebuild neural connections or create better cybernetic prostheses and instead it’s like LETS MAKE YOU WORK EVEN IN YOUR SLEEP
Also like this is a step frm they having hives of workers in induced permasleep working 24/7
Who knew the matrix was not just cisnormative culture, it was capitalism, not robots
Call me a luddite, but there is no way I am giving Elon Musk and his acolytes direct access to my brain.
This whole thing is blatantly going to end up with control chips in people's heads.
It'll be offered as a safety measure for prisons first. Their current tech is already quite capable of knocking out, paralysing, or killing. More sophisticated methods of control come later.
Every time this comes up, I think about Greg Egans' Quarantine, which featured loyalty chip implants as a precondition of employment. And it didn't even really twist the knife on the creepy front.
I think a lot about how human brains aren’t meaningfully different from the brains of historical humans that largely (w/ exceptions) thought slavery was good to do to anyone they could get away with ensnaring.
Only black holes of selfishness and ambition get to billionaire levels of money.
I dont want to give them any more clicks, but based on the discussion I see, I think theyre getting at a good point: creativity requires time, and a lot of creative work isnt fully conscious. but who has time for that?
They were so close to getting that the actual solution is working less.
If you’re doing creative work normal sleep does this though
When I am working on a big project there are background processes running constantly and often sleep is when those ideas solidify
Yes! You need normal sleep and time to actively think about nothing while passively thinking about creative stuff. That’s why shower thoughts are a thing!
what kind of fucking brain rot do you have to have to think this is a good idea?
seriously I can not imagine ANY context that would lead someone to think this was good and cool
how detached from reality are they?
It's not detachment, it's just trying to manufacture consent for it, trying to sell it to us, the "solution" to our wage woes, just geg chipped and work the 8 hours instead of sleeping, the bosses want bigger yachts the whales can't destroy.
It would be neat to induce lucid dreaming that wouldn’t result in a lower quality of sleep. (Which is does because the brain is more active.)
But that would probably just create a new strain of super sociopaths that spend half their time controlling a fake world without any consequences.
