Yeah I can see how that would be scary. Although we delegate more and more of our lives to outside entities (money, identity, information, housing) so I wouldnāt be surprised if in a couple generation it becomes okā¦ 
That I would love but itās an interesting subject! I believe sleep is also critical for the brain so will it be for a simulated brain?
Do fruit flies sleep? Google says yes. So I guess we will have the answer to that pretty soon?
Cool but I donāt want a human faceā¦
Besides, imagine not being tracked by face tracking cameras. 
(ok, that might no longer be the case once the required technology becomes available.)
Just a thought I had. Have you ever heard of a video game called The Talos Principle?
Itās a puzzle solving game, but the story line might appeal to you.
Why not? While itās true that some cults make such jokes to poison the well, this doesnāt appear to be the case here. And it doesnāt bother me either.
Sure, thereās pain in my past, but it kept me safe a couple of times already. There were some silver linings at the end of the day.
If youāre interested in how those highly controlling groups work, I can recommend this book:
This is another good read on a similar subject:
The first one is worth reading IMHO, understanding how manipulation works can help you keep yourself and your close family safe.
Played it already! Itās a good game but it was way too gnostic for my liking. The whole thing about portraying an evil of inept demiurge who creates an existence that is a prison for itās creations was rather apparent in the that game. Same goes for the āserpentā in it, and even encounters some of the problems of certain branches of post modern thought were you end up confused after carelessly discarding all meaning.
If it wasnāt for particular philosophy and approach, I wouldāve bought the second game. Iām allergic to the humanities after allā¦
Story wise, I enjoyed Soma a lot more. Even if the robot designs from The Talos Principle are nicer.
15 year old throwback
Do you know if Amal still has that bike?
Iāve seen that video before, but itās still amazing years later.
I would love to hear about your experiences and what cult it was.
I recently found out about the big Tea sex cults. Never looking at Celestial Seasons Throat Coat the same way againā¦
Nope sold years ago sadly 
Still have that ps90?
PS90 like the firearm?
Yeap, Amal added an RFID safety to it IIRC.
Judge Dredd guns have been a pipe-dream of mine forever.
I like the concept, but unless you are capable and willing to roll your own, you cede control to someone else. Iām not even talking about the āfrom my cold dead handsā argument. As soon as your fridge is IOT, somebody else puts their oar in your waters. Printers as a subscription service. Wasnāt it BMW who tried having heated seats, on a paid plan. Ford filed a patent for a car that they could override and control to repossess itself.
Bleeding edge tech is cool, but not in someone elseās walled garden.
Gets mugged.
Hang on! My gun is out of battery!
GM has something similar with OnStar.
Agreed, something like a gun should be your own. Even the fridge should be your ownā¦ And cash should always be accepted. But Iām probably more libertarian than most of the people here.
Most people loose freedom by agreeing to things they shouldnāt agree toā¦ Itās convenient after all. But freedom has a cost, and part of it is having to learn how things work instead of relying on companies that make things that require no skill. Giving up control without a clear understanding is a terrible idea.
Another part of freedom is not wasting time with the wrong friends, not marrying the wrong person, not staying in the wrong country, etcā¦ But thatās a whole derail on itās own.
And Iād also push the idea of having built in guns, but probably you all know my little mechanical obsession by nowā¦
Better yet,
I cancelled my self defense subscription plan to cut down on expensesā¦
Back when Vice used to be really goodā¦
