I absolutely think that privacy within your own mind should be inviolable (trusting corporations and even government to agree is laughable). Iain Banks’ Culture series explores some of these implications, as well as who should be in control of your mental state. It’s messy and hard, and is one of the reasons I currently wouldn’t get a brain implant. I might change my mind if I had ALS, for instance.

I likely had undiagnosed depression for decades before I got treatment, from a GP, no less, after being dismissed by a psychiatrist. If you have concerns about your health, keep trying to get help, as long as you’re able.

“What am I without my legs?” “What am I without my eyes?” “What am I without my arms?”

What counts as “the real me” has been evolving for decades, if not centuries. I’m not volunteering for brain implants, but I’m not writing off the idea sometime in the future. As for AI, this is going to be more of the ML variety, not the LLM variety. Think more of “neurochemical levels have been trending in a certain direction for too long, release opposing neurochemicals to halt the spiral” and less of a little voice inside your head giving quite possibly incorrect answers to whatever you’re thinking of.

This is absolutely risky stuff, but less risky than recurring electroshock therapy? Hard for me to say. Note that the article is from nearly 2 decades ago, but there are articles in the news from just the last couple weeks.

I have one of the models affected by this recall. My serial number indicates it isn’t affected. It’s been working fine for years. I have other products of theirs and my biggest complaint is that my earbuds didn’t work after being lost in the snow and found months later in the spring.

Does my anecdote beat yours?

Don’t you hate how you will relive those minor mess-ups that barely matter for years after? Most people probably don’t care if they can even remember it.

That is just brutal.

I went through this in my middle teens. It took 10 or 20 years to go away.

I’ve never been diagnosed with tinnitus, but I’ve been living with it for decades. I mostly have a low-level, staticky whine, but sometimes I’ll have attacks that are high-pitched, loud, and painful. I will also rarely have bouts where my hearing is muffled and definitely feels like someone is behind you blocking ambient sounds. The in front of you part is probably blocked out by our eyes showing nothing there.

English is perfectly reasonable… if you think taking root words from 3 or 4 languages as a core and fleshing it out with words from another half dozen languages and stitching it together with grammar that kind of matches a couple of those languages is reasonable.

There’s no real evidence that people are smarter today than they were 5000 years or so ago. We just have more knowledge/technology.

It’s what helps Dianetics stay in the Bestsellers lists.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to implying here. Is there some industrial espionage happening, where you think Iran is going to lose some secret to the other nuclear powers? Or do you think the international watchdog isn’t going to report on the facilities and activities they’re mandated to monitor?

If it makes you feel better, I do that off of Lemmy, too.

Yeah, I’d be happy if they had an unsupported version, but I get that could cause negative publicity for those who couldn’t accept that unsupported means exactly that.

Sadly, SailfishOS is region locked. Being from North America, I can’t purchase their phones, or use the trial/emulation option, which really sucks because I like a lot of what I’m seeing there.

I once had the perfect job for biphasic sleeping. I would get up at 4 AM, work and be home by about 1 PM, sleep til 4 PM, stay up til 11 PM, then back to bed til 4 AM. 8 hours of sleep a day, 7 or 8 hours for work, 7 hours in the afternoon and evening for whatever I wanted, and I felt well-rested the whole time. It’s the only thing I miss about that job.

I can appreciate what you’re saying, but it’s kind of like action adventure films. They mix the genres because the audience they’re targeting wants that. So, if women are interested in romance, they can expand the fantasy readership by putting that in there. I’ve read some that aren’t bad and some that are pretty tiring, but Allen Dean Foster wove a romance element into the Flinx series now and then, and it was a key part of the Spellsinger series. So not really just a women-only thing, and likely for the same reasons - expanding the market for the books.

In basketball, you must always have two limbs touching the ground when you have the ball, unless you are standing, shooting, or jumping. Why? I don’t like basketball and think it would be funny as he’ll.

I prefer to think of merging it into the gestalt.

I forgot about the orbs. Maybe I’m less of a wizard type and more of a lamp type than I thought.