cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702

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screenshot of this bluesky post (which you can read without logging in here) from ‪@comraderobot.bsky.social‬ (“Notorious RBMK”) saying:

my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got.

there’s unhinged and then there’s tech unhinged

image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text:

REM sleep is the next Al

The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup

  • Controlling a smart home from dreams
  • Transferring speech from dreams
  • Controlling virtual cars from dreams
  • Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants
  • Social media for sharing dream journals
  • Smart sleep masks powered by Al
  • Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech)

Don’t miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors

Aug 29th Palo Alto

Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying “Possible tumblr screenshot” with a “hide” button.

the guy behind this startup:

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I saw the tagline and thought it meant that REM sleep is the next big thing people invest in because sleep is good for your health so they’re selling solutions to boost your sleep quality

    Boy was I wrong

  • nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Oh, so they can’t get autonomous driving to work, thus the next step is to get people who are sleeping to steer the cars remotely

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        2 months ago

        They’re going to ender’s game you. It’ll be pitched as a game or training and it’ll come out it was real cars

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          2 months ago

          I will totally abide by all traffic rules when playing a virtual reality driving game in my sleep. Nothing can go wrong there.

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            2 months ago

            Well, in the case of Ender’s Game, that was the point. Trick kids into thinking they were playing a game and they wouldn’t think twice about being as brutal as necessary to win. So if your goal is to have cars murder people, having people control them with their dreams is a pretty good idea.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I totally want a copy of the dream I had last night where someone stole my motor scooter and I was chasing them around a parking lot

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      2 months ago

      There’s a free tier, which means the dream is same but there are billboards all around the parking lot