• @dmention7@lemm.ee
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      371 year ago

      I dunno, being able to get my 8 hours of work in AND get a full nights’ sleep at the same time, leaving 16 hours for leisure sounds awesome to me!

      At least that’s how I’m choosing to believe this will play out, for the sake of my sanity.

      • tim-clark
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        271 year ago

        You mean 8hrs of sleep work and 8hrs of awake work. Paid only for the awake work

      • ivanafterall
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        91 year ago

        Do you think you’ll feel rested if you were dreamworking on TPS reports all night?

        • @dmention7@lemm.ee
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          51 year ago

          I mean, I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t give it a try, assuming it replaced 8 hours of awake work.

          • Ech
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            41 year ago

            Sleep is one of the few respites from the drudgery and harshness of this world. In the offchance it can actually be hijacked for more labor, do not let it be stolen.

      • @Jaded@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        61 year ago

        I’d rather work 8 hours awake and have the lucid dreaming just add to my leisure time tbh. Seems a waste to unlock the dreamworld just to be office drones in it.

      • @habanhero@lemmy.ca
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        21 year ago

        What kind of work lets you get away with zero social communication and interaction for the entirety of 8 hours a day? Even in the “coding” example, there is a fair bit of collaboration in software development.

        Even assuming this kind of job exists, your corporate overlords will push for mandatory 8hr day work + 8hr sleep work and only pay you 4 hours for it.

    • @Gork@lemm.ee
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      331 year ago

      Quiet, peasant, and get to dreamwork. Shareholder value isn’t going to increase on its own.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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      151 year ago

      Originally in The Matrix people were the CPU/GPU in the robots system, not the batteries.

      But WB didn’t think anyone knew what those were in 1999

      • @KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        Taking advantage of the unique aspects of organic processing would have made way more sense than our convoluted and comparatively inefficient, especially in context, power output. Also closes the loop, at least somewhat, on “why didn’t they make people vegetables.”

    • ivanafterall
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      31 year ago

      If any coworkers appear in my dreams, I’ll personally see to it that shit gets real weird.

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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      251 year ago

      I still hold that if/when someone develops an actual functional chip to go in our brains, the first bit of homebrew is going to be adblocking.

      Then we’ll see if the human brain can run DOOM, as is tradition.

      • ivanafterall
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        161 year ago

        The good news: it can run DOOM easily. The bad news: we don’t know how to get it to stop running DOOM.

      • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        31 year ago

        My brain has been running DOOM for years. A paper bag to breathe into, the 5-4-3-2-1 method, and Xanax in the worst cases help.

  • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    131 year ago

    Ignoring the capitalistic dystopia this represents, I have no interest in letting a techbro ultrasound my brain, especially to be more productive with my work.

    • Ech
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      71 year ago

      People love to think of brain-tech as sci-fi magic that will improve everything, but there’s zero chance it doesn’t devolve into the same profit focused mess we already have with every other tech field. Having even more of my person commodified is not something I’m interested in welcoming.

  • @chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    111 year ago

    I mean, even lucid dreaming is still dreaming. It won’t really be a good idea to let unconscious people write code (or anything for general consumption)

    • rynzcycle
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      41 year ago

      Right?! Last lucid dream I had I was sure I had written the coolest song ever, people in the dream thought it was amazing. I knew it was a dream, but fuzzy dream me was genuinely excited to remember it when I woke up.

      From what I recall it was a country western rap/chant… Spoiler: It was not a good song.

  • blazera
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    101 year ago

    it’s paywalled, what bullshit did they come up with to get investor’s money

    • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      111 year ago

      Start up company, ridiculous product, fortune magazine… It’s bullshit invester advertising. Probably fraudulent too based on Fortunes track record of promotion.

    • Theres no working product yet. Last this was posted they’re measuring lucid dreamers sleep, AND THEN they’re going to use some transducers to stimulate someone’s brain to hit observed conditions. But it’s all in theory now.

      I wouldn’t want to be a guinea pig for this, that’s for sure. Can’t imagine anything going wrong.

      • @Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Reminds me of that one black mirror episode where this dude was left in a repeating nightmare for a thousand simulated years.

  • @blahsay@lemmy.world
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    101 year ago

    In all seriousness I really do code in my sleep sometimes. I wake up and remember how to fix something tricky. If it meant I could knock off early I guess I could cope with this 🤔

    • @otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      41 year ago

      Thing is, your PM wouldn’t have you clocking out at all, if it meant pushing the project closer to completion. You think they’re concerned with your sleep cycle now? This would be even less of a reason to do so.

  • eighthourlunch
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    71 year ago

    What do they think we’ve already been doing this whole time? It’s why we prefer to have the lights out in the office.

  • @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    51 year ago

    Yeah. that is 100% not why they are developing tech to induce lucid dreams.

    That is just how they got funding for flying sex dreams.

  • If they end up becoming a successful company, that in fact can induce lucid dreaming at will, how long do you think it will be before they start showing us dream ads?

  • This is just the less fun version of hypnospace outlaw, where you can just do basically Myspace in your sleep instead of work. Great video game, big recommend