What are the chances this won’t be proprietary?
Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
Submitted 10 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DicJacobus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Valve bros dont need to worry about what happens in life after gaben, because I think gaben is going to ascend to cyberspace before the end.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Portal 2 was a road map
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s… Not a very promising roadmap…
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Him and Kurzweil just hanging out on the same subnet.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I can hear this picture
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s wild how Lemmy gamers and others treat Steam as if it’s a noble corporation and Gabe is THEIR billionaire so he can’t possibly be bad. The fact that he’s a billionaire is proof that he underpaid and stole from everyone below him. There are no good billionaires, and Gabe is not your friend
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Yes but to be fair it wouldn’t be hard to find someone that felt that they were more exploited by Valve then by the likes of EA or Epic
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The fact that you wrote this with just vibes makes me love Gabe that much more. I’m finding that the best past in life is to reject whatever the fuck you all are selling since you’re all so out of touch with reality.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s wild how many servile, billionaire lovers there are here today. It’s kinda pathetic
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
The fact that he is a billionaire does not mean that lol. He’s a billionaire because his company gets a cut of every sale of games on his platform, and his platform is the industry standard/default platform for digital distribution. He could be paying his employees a million a year to be a janitor and he’d still be a billionaire, no “stealing” and not one being underpaid.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Stop defending billionaires, they don’t care about you
Jhex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
it’s almost as if there may be room for something in between love and hate, black and white, good and evil
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
OMG GET OUT OF HERE
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is a killer a good person? Isn’t there a line to cross before you become bad? If you reached billionaire status you left the moral line far behind
Demdaru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, it’s hard to hate on someone who pays his people well, gives fun benefits, cultivates chill working culture and is overall simply a chill guy and whose big, fat marketshare comes from actually working for the customer.
Yeah. He could probably pay better or give more of his wealth into the society. Hell, prolly even should. But the fact is that among anyone else with that title, Gabe looks like a goddamn saint.
Rose@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
cultivates chill working culture
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He’s anti union, valve employees aren’t allowed to unionize. Also seems cool with making money off all the games made by studios who are also underpaying and over working employees
nomy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
He could direct his company to stop targeting kids with addictive gambling mechanics and looking the other way regarding grey-market resellers.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
But yet he mighz be one of the beat billionaires in the pool of filth.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nicest guy in prison
isekaihero@ani.social 10 months ago
We could build Sword Art Online, but I think we all know that this technology will be used to beam ads directly into your head 24/7. You won’t be able to sleep because of the penis enhancement ads.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah, it’s GabeN.
Half Life: Alyx 2 will be coming straight into your brain.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months ago
it’s Gaben
It’s a new technology. The product will be bigger than Gabe or Valve and won’t take long to become duplicated in function and form, then become commonplace.
Gabe is starting a fire, it may spread and do things against his or anyone’s goodwill.
Bosht@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m hoping if it’s headed by Gabe’s efforts it will be relatively clean. Guess only time will tell.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That will be awesome for when my body dies, but I still want to be a brain in a jar playing MechWarrior.
rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Billionaires should not exist
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Step 1: Tax all wealth above 999 Million at 100% taxrate
Step 2: Congrats, no more billionaires! 🎆🎇🎉🎊mcv@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s worth remembering that there was a time when the highest US tax bracket was taxed at 90%, and that didn’t stop the US’s longest period of sustained economic growth.
Ridiculously high tax rates for ridiculously high incomes have been done before and are entirely feasible.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 months ago
tax all wealth above the nth percentile of the populations wealth
Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Careful now you are scaring tankies because they can’t go long without their delusions of getting to massacre everyone who disagrees with them.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I wish I could close or move windows around with my brain. It would be so nice.
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m only doing the brain chip thing if it can fully transplant me to a Matrix level of simulated reality and get me out of this current hellhole permanently.
dan1101@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Wow Valve was on a great series of wins, this is a rare loss for them. Who wants this? Best case people will be sitting in meetings playing Half Life 3 in their brains. I don’t really want that.
priapus@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You’re looking at this with a very closed mind. This isnt (currently) being designed for people to just do normal computer stuff but in their brain. This technology has huge potential for improving prosthetics and treating neurological disorders.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I want shit like this. I want to be a cyborg. I do not want them to kill hundreds of apes for it though.
disgrunty@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Reminder: billionaires are apes… (For legal reasons, this is a joke)
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 10 months ago
we’re a long fucking way from helping any of those people with this stuff. this is for all the multimillionaires out there.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
If it gets me closer to Half-Life 3, then pipe that shit into my brains
SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
"As part of your onboarding process, we’re just going to implant your Company ID. That way, for your safety, we’ll always know where you are. If you hear a buzzing sound, that means return to the office immediately. Reduced work speed will produce a mild reminder shock.
“Welcome to the Corporation.”
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Reminder shock is amazing LMAO
LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Maybe they could use the implanted chip to wall off your non-work side when you enter your office so you’re not distracted and fully focused on your job.
Then when you leave your work side gets blocked off so you can leave work at work. Automatic work/life balance.
nomy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Not sure if it was intentional but you just summarized the show Severance.
pipe01@programming.dev 10 months ago
They should make a big facility to test the implants
Crabhands@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
[deleted]DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yperating System?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You’d need people to solve puzzles to really put the implant through its paces. Something involving blocks should be sufficiently simple to play around with while having lots of variation.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“has long toyed with the idea that your brain should be more connected to your PC”
seems like billionaires’ wet dream to be honest
coolmojo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But imagine how easy it would be to
track youserve you more personalised ads.lucelu2@lemm.ee 10 months ago
We have all been “convinced” to carry tracking devices with us everywhere we go. Way cheaper than a brain implant.
qaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Props to him for trying it himself instead of having someone else do it and take all the risk
underline960@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Valve CEO Gabe Newell pretends to get a hole drilled into his head for a brain-computer interface.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 10 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like that vision of future (implants are cool, neural interfaces can be useful), but I’d also like our world to stop and think a bit at every stage.
Solve the global network (note how I’m not saying “global computer network”, because I don’t think so, ideally we’d still have global analog commutated channel network as the base level), web of hypertext documents, universal applications and personal computing problems sufficiently well first. Then go to brain implants.
It’s like combat drones, using them with optical cables for communication is better than with radio, turns out. That’s the current way.
Would be good if for computing we’d figure out ways better than war to remove delusions.
Zirconium@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So this is how we’re gonna get half life 3 huh
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Is this what were getting instead of half life 3?
wewbull@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Half life: Alyx required VR.
Half life 3 requires neural integration.
tal@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I can see and feel the headcrab like it’s actually there.
Sabata11792@ani.social 10 months ago
HL3 brain dance confirmed.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 10 months ago
As long as theres no wifi and its to solve medical issues, why not? Better than trusting a nazi.
Rose@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Valve enabling Nazis on Steam is about as good as being a Nazi. If this is the first time you’re hearing about the problem, search for “steam nazi” via your favorite search engine and you’ll get some pretty good results among the first.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Digital onboard data processing and spike detection allows the device to operate via low-bandwidth wireless interfaces.
It also receives power wirelessly so probably going to be the only option.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
not “no wifi”. It’s “no any kind of wireless connections” and even then I’ll say no.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
not “no wifi”. It’s “no any kind of wireless connections” and even then I’ll say no.
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
“The non WiFi versions cost more and are not supported by most insurance.”
- from the future
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When Gabe or Musk are the first people to get the implant, I’ll consider it… 10 to 15 years later.
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TIL Valve is into brain chips.
illi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How the hell is this not the Onion?
Rakonat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Steam controller flash backs Pass
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 10 months ago
What?
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That picture 😂
papercut@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
nice thumbnail
muhyb@programming.dev 10 months ago
Will we also get a control valve back on our heads?
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Not advocating for our against but 2 thoughts here:
1: Gabe isn’t Musk. Yes money etc but don’t immediately jump there without other malfeasance please. Caution absolutely but don’t ascribe one rich assholes shit to another.
2: He probably has hard data on accessibility… Possibly more than nearly anyone else. There’s a HUGE portion of the population that can’t use “traditional” controllers or other input devices. And that’s not even going into the medical realm.
Could game Gabe be starting his villain phase? Sure! But until more negative details come out I’m just hoping this is investments he’d use toward a new steam controller.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Yeah, if we were putting billionaires against the wall, GabeN would probably be near the end of the line.
mcv@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There was a time the same was true for Elon Musk, before he suddenly decided to jump the queue. I really hope Gabe isn’t going down that path.
Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
let’s not circlejerk and have a soft spot for a billionaire just because you like video games. why give gaben the benefit of the doubt just because you think steam is a good product? if they’re a billionaire doing this, we can assume this is a money making venture.
if you’re a billionaire, you’re already way into your villain phase. he’s not musk, but he’s one of them. you don’t make a billion dollars. you take a billion dollars.
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
So, you are reading things I didn’t write. I’m not defending him about steam games etc… The only good will here about any of it is the work toward better Linux life.
I agree billionaires shouldn’t exist.
I don’t like steam.
I don’t really do much gaming… And it’s worth stuff from GOG.
Chill out. I’m not the fanboi you are looking for.
I’m only saying perhaps he sees $$$ in a venture that is rife with much worse people doing far worse to vulnerable people.
On the off chance better access comes about from rich assholes eating each other, I’m game to at least watch.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Billionaires either inherit their money or get it by being an asshole. Being nice doesn’t make people billionaires.
nickhammes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t get to be a billionaire without some malfeasance.
And even if you don’t assume actively malicious intent like you should with Musk, there’s a lot of potential danger with technology like this, and if you don’t stand a lot to gain, and have reasonable controls against things going wrong, it’s probably not a good idea to be an early adopter. It’s just like a pacemaker, there are a narrow segment of people who should want to test a new model/concept for them.
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Absolutely agree at every part.
My desire would be strong regulation via a real agency (not current US), or alternatively ONLY work via non-intrusive means on the scalp.