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[–] 97 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Oh great, now they expect us to work in our sleep.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years 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."

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Oh god, that sounds so much better than the battery idea. But yeah I could totally see regular audiences not being able to understand that. Morpheus really succinctly summed up his argument when he just pulled out a AA battery in that scene. Such a good movie moment.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago

    I have always wanted my sleep to make some trust fund baby richer.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Next stop is to make ads in our sleep, Futurama style.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    No, they can't.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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 🤔

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it won't be that hard. I mean, some people can suddenly dream about local milfs/ dilfs available in their area.

    or that one guy trying to reach them about some extended warranty.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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    As long as my sleep counts towards hours worked, and the amount of hours worked stays the same, I could agree to this.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That'd be pretty sweet if I could study in my sleep.

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