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This imaginary problem can be solved by having a hardware off switch.


Imagine your brain got so used to the neuralink interactions and benefits that turning it off causes an insurmontable pain (like drugs)


Sure if someone has two improbable situations combined, they are doomed. But they are more likely to be killed by a lightning.



To be clear, I don't think this is a solution to either.

The entire reason why people suffer from anti-social behavior delivered through computers is that computers are a real part of our world at this point. Simply disengaging may not be an effective way of dealing with it.

It's still a funny tweet though.


/If we sense that you think about turning off your neuralink, we will blow it up/


If we can read your mind, we don't need to ask you to do anything, we will just read all your passwords and do everything ourselves.




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