A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
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Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#2One day these implants are going to be so sophisticated that we may very well evolve to not have bio-hearing at all. I have friends with implants, and one of them regularly just keeps it switched off to focus on writing. I am deeply envious though of course, at present the bit-depth is not very good from what I understand about the tech, and his brain even after 20 years of having the implant isn't good at differentiating between background and foreground sounds, making conversation difficult for him in noisy places. It's great that kids are getting these early so they have a chance to learn how to adapt. I'm excited to see what superpowers they will glean from having powered-brains.
Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#3One day these implants are going to be so sophisticated that we may very well evolve to not have bio-hearing at all. I have friends with implants, and one of them regularly just keeps it switched off to focus on writing. I am deeply envious though of course, at present the bit-depth is not very good from what I understand about the tech, and his brain even after 20 years of having the implant isn't good at differenti…
2045 hackernews headline: “Senses capable of spying should have hardware switches”
Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#4It's remarkable how some people in life, were destined to be forever deaf and without any control about it. Yet people preach at any age how we have control instead of teaching how reality really is and where people wouldn't be labouring under delusion. /hard determinist
Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#5I can't wait for headlines like these
"CIA warns against using Huawei P-190(TM) ear implants".
Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#6It's remarkable how some people in life, were destined to be forever deaf and without any control about it. Yet people preach at any age how we have control instead of teaching how reality really is and where people wouldn't be labouring under delusion. /hard determinist
> how reality really is
Well the deaf girl can hear now, so it is clear that sometimes people do have control over natural conditions.
Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#7One day these implants are going to be so sophisticated that we may very well evolve to not have bio-hearing at all. I have friends with implants, and one of them regularly just keeps it switched off to focus on writing. I am deeply envious though of course, at present the bit-depth is not very good from what I understand about the tech, and his brain even after 20 years of having the implant isn't good at differenti…
2045 hackernews headline: “Senses capable of spying should have hardware switches”
2080 hackernews headling. Google shut down hearing senses on half the population due to a software error.
Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#8One day these implants are going to be so sophisticated that we may very well evolve to not have bio-hearing at all. I have friends with implants, and one of them regularly just keeps it switched off to focus on writing. I am deeply envious though of course, at present the bit-depth is not very good from what I understand about the tech, and his brain even after 20 years of having the implant isn't good at differenti…
I mean, I too have trouble having conversations in noisy places, and my ears are all natural, just old!
Re: A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
#9It's remarkable how some people in life, were destined to be forever deaf and without any control about it. Yet people preach at any age how we have control instead of teaching how reality really is and where people wouldn't be labouring under delusion. /hard determinist
> how reality really is Well the deaf girl can hear now, so it is clear that sometimes people do have control over natural conditions.
No, she was just was born into a time where enough suffering, has resulted in science progressing to the point and where her hearing can be fixed. The act doesn't change control over natural or personal. She was fated to get the surgery and whatever comes in life. She is no different than her reflection and similar to everything in reality. It's a shame people are so against understanding how things really are at the fundamental level.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
2045 hackernews headline: “Senses capable of spying should have hardware switches”
2080 hackernews headling. Google shut down hearing senses on half the population due to a software error.
2081: A hearing aid startup runs out of VC capital and shuts down the centralized server that everyone's ears are dependent on, and publishes a blog post titled "the next step in our hearing journey."