Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-brain interface

Re:Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-b... by ineedasername on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:50PM (#27510481)

So eventually we'll get to the point where people say things like: "I'm only running a dual guinea setup. I can't wait to upgrade to an octo-guinea for HD perceptual transfer."

And

"I can't believe some people go direct brain to brain. Without a guinea buffer you open yourself up to all kinds attacks. Who wants to risk having their sense of taste ransomwared? Sure there's ethical issues with guinea arrays, but better their synapses get fried than than mine."

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-b... by _carbyau_ on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:25AM (#27511280)

The cyberpunk "jack-into-the-matrix person is bleeding from the eyes due to feedback" trope is often complained about.

"Why not use a fuse?" people cry.

Well, storytelling is why that trope exists. Now storytelling has no excuse not to fix it. If military trained dolphins are hacker supremes then guinea pigs are the "fuse".

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-b... by breckenedge on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:41PM (#27511020)

Can’t wait for laptops with gigaPig chips.

On a more serious note, we already have vision implants, so is there a similar study in the works on brain-to-brain vision?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-b... by ineedasername on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:30PM (#27523895)

Guinea pig farms selectively breading for ever smaller pigs will replace nanometer race in chip fabs. Neurons per mm^3 and the ratio of brain to overall body mass will be the new benchmarks. Heat dissipation will still be an issue, with the added complications of efficient sustenance delivery and excrement disposal. Cutting edge research will be done on immunology to prevent guinea array viruses.

There's definitely enough material here for a Douglas Adams style spoof on the traditional cyberpunk novel.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Listening to speech with a guinea pig-to-human brain-to-b... by breckenedge on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:19AM (#27539258)

I would pay $14.95 to read that in trade paperback edition.

[ Parent | on HN ]