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:

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    You really don’t have any interest in controlling virtual cars with your dreams? That alone has me signing up as an investor.

    • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
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      2 months ago

      I sort of already do. It’s called dreaming about driving a car.

      I think these folks forgot that random dreams play an important role in information processing. I’d rather not mess with that too much.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, that’ll go great when the car is suddenly driving 14 miles down the driveway of the house I lived at as a child - a driveway that is walkable in less than a minute - before entering the garage which is a large house that slightly resembles a place I used to work and has a view over a clock tower that may or may not be larger when you look at it from a different angle and I think I’ll nap in this bed that’s here.

      Now tell me: Where is the car relative to its position when that five-second-long dream sequence began, and will that pedestrian ever walk again?