I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy • Hacker News Board

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by RobertDeNiro » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

This is doomed to fail. Dry EEG electrodes basically only capture noise.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by hiAndrewQuinn » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #19

podgietaru wrote: post #18

"In a couple years" In a couple years?! Get over the technical hurdles, do you think PEOPLE will be ready to telepathically talk to a computer in A COUPLE OF YEARS?

vim already exists

secret counterexample. people have been failing to learn vim for literal decades

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by andrethegiant » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

Visit from CIA in 3, 2, 1...

The only thing I would actually want this for would be a dream logger. Extremely invasive and quite dangerous otherwise.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by cdrnsf » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

I thought this was a parody when I opened it.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by m4ck_ » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

Maybe I’m just demented but i feel like the first time I interface with chatgpt via telepathy it’s going to see my thoughts when the guy in the cube behind me farts or chews loudly, and send the FBI.

What a terrible idea.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by gverrilla » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

> My AI is a natural extension of me. It feels like a sixth sense and another limb. I wonder about a problem, feel as though I’m literally surfing the web, see glimpses of the websites, get flashes of intuition about the problem, and ultimately derive the answer. It feels fun! My brain is like the Flash. Because of write tech, my thinking is the fastest it's ever been even when I turn my AI off.

I read "race conditions" all over this vision.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by baron3dl » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

who holds the copyright on the transcriptions of my thoughts read by this hardware? what license to those do you impose through EULA? what privacy controls need to be invented to prevent literal thought police?

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by ACCount37 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:51 PM UTC

> non-invasive

Dead in the water.

It's like an omlette. Can't make a neural interface worth a damn without cracking open a few skulls.

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by robterrell » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #13

cormorant wrote: post #10

Never mind "how could this go wrong". How could this go right ?

Simple, think about going right

For some reason your comment reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-uzsw0kqw

Re: I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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Post by platevoltage » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

I can't wait for this tech to be incorporated into corporate productivity trackers that seem to be getting more popular.