Because this is all sci-fi woo woo and the honest truth is that we have no fucking clue how memory storage, learning, experience, or recollection actually mechanically work in the mind. At least relative to how an electronic device could interface with, let alone, augment or manipulate those mechanisms.

On top of that, our current system has proven time and again that you cannot trust an entity whose sole purpose for existence is to extract wealth from the resources around it (i.e. people). Not especially for something like this. It will need to be regulated, standardized, limited, and controlled by an external coalition.

I mean, you remember it for being annoying. Others remember it for being traumatizing.

We can hardly get our self-designed computer systems to adequately communicate with each other or function. How confident are you that we can design an appropriate interface with our brain? Something which we still have yet to fully decipher?

In no way do I want venture capitalists and tech bros fucking fumbling around in my brain with hardware designed and constructed by the lowest bidder.

I’m not smort enough to make memes :-(

I was freaking out the whole time leading up to my speech. I didn’t want to let my best friend and his whole family down. I didn’t touch anything before the speech, had a shot just before. Nailed it, then just got blasted.

Overall, best speech I’ve ever given!

Is every Australian user here either an idiot or an asshole?

Perhaps these men should reach out to a therapist and not bigoted, hateful pieces of shit?

Oh, look, another conservative idiot spouting useless shit. How unique…

I love that your bar is: hey man at least no one’s randomly stabbing you.

I’m not sure there’s much of a consumer market for those products. At least not in the self-operated and self-hosted way you might be thinking. I feel like way too many of us here have major blinders on in the way non-experts or non-hobbyists approach a vast majority of technology and technology adjacent subjects.

Speaking as if I were a layman, why would I download and install a word processor when I can just login to gdocs and have it there?

And in regards to enterprise, you’d be hard pressed to find any tech crew willing to stake their career on open source, user facing tools that don’t have a robust support structure in place.

This is a meme about milquetoast christian dudes…

There’s no mention of soulmates anywhere. Why is this relevant?

I’m going to assume you’re a cis man for this.

Let’s say we work together. I insist that I don’t care about gender and see no reason why I should. As such, I decide to refer to you as ‘lady’ or ‘girl’ over the course of our daily conversations.

Would that not bother you? You don’t think that wouldn’t eventually start having an effect on you? Being constantly misidentified, misgendered, or having a part of who you are be literally disregarded?

Learning ‘academic’ math is more about learning a framework for better understanding and interrogating the world around you. It’s a lifelong skill that continues to build as you grow and become more experienced in life.

Learning how to do your taxes is, like, a YouTube search and 30 minutes away. Is it practical to be taught in high school? Sure, I guess. Maybe in a dedicated finance management course. Will that process change as you get older and shift careers, life situations, and potentially move? Most assuredly.

All that to say: I’ve never understood this line of thought. It’s like when people go to college expecting to learn the absolute most practical and directly applicable aspects of whatever career they’ve chosen. That’s, frankly, not a very good way to teach the future generation or to become more capable yourself. You want people who can adapt to challenges and new ideas within the profession; not people that only know how to do something a very specific way because “that’s how they were taught”.