cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702

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screenshot of this bluesky post (which you can read without logging in here) from ‪@comraderobot.bsky.social‬ (“Notorious RBMK”) saying:

my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got.

there’s unhinged and then there’s tech unhinged

image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text:

REM sleep is the next Al

The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup

  • Controlling a smart home from dreams
  • Transferring speech from dreams
  • Controlling virtual cars from dreams
  • Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants
  • Social media for sharing dream journals
  • Smart sleep masks powered by Al
  • Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech)

Don’t miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors

Aug 29th Palo Alto

Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying “Possible tumblr screenshot” with a “hide” button.

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the guy behind this startup:

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    19•3 months ago

    I guess people with mind blindness or blurry minds will be fucked out of luck on this tech, huh?

    • Todd BonzalezEnglish
      9•3 months ago

      Aphantasic here. We still dream. It’s all about whether you’re a visualizer or a conceptualizer, we’re not brain damaged.

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        I mean, I know it doesn’t mean you’re brain damaged. I just am bad at visualizing things in my own head. I’m like at a number 3 here myself.

        So I wouldn’t think external technology would suddenly make your brain better at internal visualization. Like, I am really great at abstractions in my head for things that don’t really have visual components. On the flip side, when I’ve had lucid dreams, the scenery and people are always wavy and indistinct. I really just meant this technology sounds bogus because it can’t make our brains better at visualizing physical things.

        Please forgive me if it sounded like I meant I thought people experiencing aphantasia were brain damaged, they most certainly are not.