r/singularity • u/yogthos • 11h ago

Transhumanism & BCI China Starts Clinical Trial of 128-Channel Brain-Computer Interface

https://chinaminutes.com/2026/05/19/china-128-channel-brain-computer-interface-trial/
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u/dustofAngels 11h ago

That's gotta be interesting

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u/Serious-Cucumber-54 11h ago

How will this affect LeBron's legacy?

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u/m3kw 11h ago

Direct physical injection of ads into your nervous system is the holy grail of advertising

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u/modbroccoli 10h ago

...128 channel. eeg. data in, not out.

what in the anime are you talking about

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u/PhilosophyMammoth748 9h ago

No need to ad. direct control the hands to place order.

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u/MaruluVR 8h ago

At that point just have the advertising company hack my bank account and skip the middle man.

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u/sophic 6h ago

Seeding desire would be more likely. The ability to have you "want" something and it feel natural as breathing.

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u/_s_a_n_d_a_l_s_ 10h ago

China!

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u/Moral-Relativity 10h ago

Chyyyyyyna you mean.

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u/_s_a_n_d_a_l_s_ 9h ago

Hahaha yes better onomonopoaeia, if that's how you spell it

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u/Dry_Fly_7265 11h ago

Yeahhhh so personalized algorithms displaying bespoke generated content to sway your opinion wasn’t enough? These fucks won’t stop until they’ve subjugated every single human on earth.

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u/striketheviol 11h ago

As a person with a disability that could benefit from a BCI, I really don't care who's advancing the science. What I care more about is people whose ignorance will stop the science from being used by others who actually need it.

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u/sighIDK- 11h ago edited 9h ago

Realistically the only way we don't become obsolete is by merging with computers somehow. Perhaps through Kurzweil's idea of the exocortex

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/LyAkolon 10h ago

in the limit, they converge.

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u/modbroccoli 10h ago

😂😂😂

the amount you don't understand about anything involved here relative to your confidence that you do is genuinely comical, hey man thanks for this

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u/yogthos 9h ago

That's a really bold take to have on /r/singularity