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From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

A word recondition ration of 78% is still petty poop.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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I can actually see this happening someday. Theoretical physicists could charge thousands of dollars an hour.

if you think they're going to pay people for their data you haven't been paying attention they'll just put it buried on page 450 of the meta glasses 3 or something

They are already paying scarce labor like medical doctors and lawyers hundreds of dollars an hour to create training data. The RoI for training data is high because it can be used to train many models.

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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Any minute: wear it permanently to sell training data on LLMs. Take an audited IQ test to negotiate your rate. Better than text-stripping the internet - this thing will soon be pulling the logits as well.

" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " " Don't be snarky. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Great respect to site guidelines, and to you. Object on both counts.

1. The post was obviously bullish / optimistic on the technical capabilities. Not in the least dismissive.

2. The economics extrapolation is obvious. See current precedent for paid access for purchased screen-casts of dev work: https://pdoom.org/open_calls/04_crowd_cast.html

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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The dystopian future will use this to get passwords/passphrases.

Wouldn’t a wrench work just as well?

No, the wrench only works as a threat. Once you beat the brains out of someone, you can't try again.

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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Someone should try it while sleeping and see if anything is related to a dream.

This wouldn’t work. Apart from it being very difficult to get people to sleep deeply enough for them to dream in machines like this, the brain state is very different whilst asleep compared with awake. Also the data generated from typing would be very different than thought since it’s likely picking up on broad electrical activity in the primary motor cortex.

Source: spouse works in a sleep lab studying dreams with MRI

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