Feels like the premise for a spy comedy with a protagonist whose mind can’t be read.

When the bad guys try they just get the lyrics to Yoko Ono music.

It'll be a cold day in hell before Meta gets access to my brainwaves. Good heavens, can you imagine?

I'm glad that, with any luck, I'll be dead before this kind of thing is commonplace.

just wait until smartphones come with mandatory brainwave readers to protect the children.

Do they test against people not in their training cohort?

@dang How is this offtopic?

Meta has shown remarkable disregard to users' and employees' privacy.

Why should that not come up when discussing an entirely new and dystopian technology that allows them to invade privacy at scale?

It's not a 'general sentiment' or tangent though, it's specifically THE technology that has the potential to make privacy nonexistent.

Funded by the company that in the recent past, got exposed trying to track employees computer interactions and grabbing screens. Not long before that, it was leaked that employees and contractors were watching videos recorded from meta/rayban smartglasses.

I'm a little bit baffled by the defense here. The point of having guidelines is to use your judgement when applying them.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree - I think that's quite a stretch, and an example of how small-specific topics tend to get sucked into the gravity field of big-generic ones, leading to less interesting discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Not only that but the less-interesting discussion usually turns more-indignant, which makes sense once the discussion abandons the actual content of an article (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

non-invasive tech from meta? i don't buy that

I tried it all it said was "Hot or not?" before it crashed

A word recondition ration of 78% is still petty poop.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Any minute: wear it permanently to sell training data on LLMs. Take an audited IQ test to negotiate your rate.

Better than text-stripping the internet - this thing will soon be pulling the logits as well.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Great respect to site guidelines, and to you. Object on both counts.

1. The post was obviously bullish / optimistic on the technical capabilities. Not in the least dismissive.

2. The economics extrapolation is obvious. See current precedent for paid access for purchased screen-casts of dev work: https://pdoom.org/open_calls/04_crowd_cast.html

I can actually see this happening someday. Theoretical physicists could charge thousands of dollars an hour.

if you think they're going to pay people for their data you haven't been paying attention

they'll just put it buried on page 450 of the meta glasses 3 or something

They are already paying scarce labor like medical doctors and lawyers hundreds of dollars an hour to create training data. The RoI for training data is high because it can be used to train many models.

Coming soon to a Meta office near you: brain-scanning to make sure employees are focused, happy, and productive!

There are no layoffs in Ba Sing Se.

If this happens, I'll be listening to music with the most annoying lyrics on repeat.

The dystopian future will use this to get passwords/passphrases.

Wouldn’t a wrench work just as well?

No, the wrench only works as a threat. Once you beat the brains out of someone, you can't try again.

It's much easier to resist torture.

The future is dark.