"When the first humanoid picked up a rock and turned it into a hammer, either to make a shelter or to kill his brother, he suddenly had a new choice he never had before. That choice is good. You see what I’m saying? Even the choice to do evil is itself a good. Which means that if there’s a 50/50 wash between good and evil, the fact that there’s another choice gives it a 1% edge.
So there’s 51% versus 49%. So that’s why I say that given everything, even the choices to do evil are a good, that we have 51% good and 49% bad. That 1 or 2% Delta, the tiny, tiny little bit better, the incremental creep of goodness and betterment compounded yearly is civilization. All we need is to have 1% better. What we need to do is create 1% more than we destroy. Then we have civilization. And by the way, 1% it’s almost invisible. Look around the world and say, half of it’s crap. Yes, it’s true. There’s only a 1% tiny bit, but that 1% difference, that little tiny bit, is all that we need. And that little tiny bit comes from, even the evil choices are choices and those choices are good. It’s good to have a choice."
Kevin Kelly
Now, that same mechanism would prevent most actions that could initiate said intent too.
In the stories, this is not abused, and serves humanity reasonably well.
We are so damn far from any sort of state where things like this make sense. They can, will be abused.
I experience the same emotions. The opportunity to share experience more directly is super compelling!
But yeah. Major league downsides.
And the things that scare me are just the few things that we can easily reason about already, not even the things that we do not yet know being possible with it. Surveillance states turned up to eleven, psychological violence up to eleven, interrogation, torture, ethically challenged tech bros going full-Zck on people's minds. Could maybe one mind invade another brain and use it to enhance its capabilities (suppressing the mind that resided there so far)? A few brains interacting so closely that they create an a lot more intelligent thing - outpacing everyone who is not willing to subject themself to that (what would that do to society?)? What happens when the interface fails biologically (for invasive methods of interfacing), like developing inflammation, bleedings, scar tissue? Technically failures like the interface device dying, broken or unreliable connections or even just batteries running low? Before you dismiss the latter, imagine how you feel when you involuntarily cannot use your phone and scale that up by a lot - as you would not be losing a tool but a part of yourself.
Enough anxiety about the future for now - have a nice day instead ;)