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    A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech

    (arstechnica.com)
    120 points LorenDB | 12 comments | 29 Jun 25 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 1.039s | source | bottom
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    pingou ◴[02 Jul 25 09:44 UTC] No.44441760[source]▶
    Telepathy is on its way. Next step they just skip the conversion of brain signals to words and just directly send the signals to another brain. But I think some conversion/translation would still be necessary.
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    1. mettamage ◴[02 Jul 25 09:51 UTC] No.44441794[source]▶
    The year is 2100. The brain of the Eurasian president got hacked by the Antartic Federation. While humans have hard coded a moral code since birth, there are illegally born babies that do not undergo brain modification treatment. Moreover, the South Pacific Whale Society has no moral code. We should’ve never implanted this stuff into whales. The world will never be the same again.
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    2. serf ◴[02 Jul 25 09:55 UTC] No.44441814[source]▶
    Ghost in the Shellfish.

    I'll see myself out.

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    3. icoder ◴[02 Jul 25 10:28 UTC] No.44442007[source]▶
    So Long, and Thanks for All the Krill
    4. mettamage ◴[02 Jul 25 10:35 UTC] No.44442045[source]▶
    Ooooh! You're on to something. They are part of the evil villain tag team group that's secretly behind all this! They call themselves Eel-on Mollusk.
    5. coldtea ◴[02 Jul 25 10:39 UTC] No.44442064[source]▶
    >The year is 2100. The brain of the Eurasian president got hacked by the Antartic Federation.

    They'd stil have a president? They would probably already have a dictator that controls everybody through a mind-reading police state...

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    6. alluro2 ◴[02 Jul 25 10:57 UTC] No.44442171[source]▶
    No, that's the Republic of Murica, where Trump The Third is a BDFL.
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    7. coldtea ◴[02 Jul 25 11:11 UTC] No.44442269{3}[source]▶
    Hardly better in Eurasia
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    8. moffkalast ◴[02 Jul 25 11:23 UTC] No.44442372{4}[source]▶
    The war with Eastasia and Oceania took a toll...
    9. gpm ◴[02 Jul 25 11:29 UTC] No.44442414[source]▶
    Lots of dictatorships use democratic language. See Putin, the President of the Russian Federation. Or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    10. thrance ◴[02 Jul 25 12:34 UTC] No.44442985[source]▶
    I think it would be deserved if whales started bombing our streets.
    11. lambdaone ◴[02 Jul 25 18:36 UTC] No.44447283[source]▶
    Or they are a hive mind, like Alastair Reynolds' Conjoiners.
    12. briandw ◴[02 Jul 25 20:57 UTC] No.44448736[source]▶
    Like in the book "Accelerando (Singularity)", the lobsters that get a protected sentience status