> maybe our mandatory NeuraLinks are coming sooner than I thought.

The founder of NeuraLink has recently proposed to deploy sentient robots to watch criminals, removing the need for incarceration. There is a lot of synergy possible here with mandatory neural links. The bot could not only watch us but also press our buttons. "Criminal", being such a flexible concept, should pose little problem to globalizing this paradigm. For one thing, it will make it possible to harvest any number of clicks necessary, so advertising becomes obsolete, and so does content.

God, I hope I'm not a prophet.

> sentient robots to watch criminals, removing the need for incarceration

These are slap drones [1] from Banks’s The Player of Games [2].

[1] https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games

> it will make it possible to harvest any number of clicks necessary, so advertising becomes unnecessary and obsolete

But then again, this is already possible, and has the advertising industry shit-scared, thus all the interest in blocking AI-related scrapers since they circumvent the whole “wasting human time” element.

Ah yes, the Culture solution (https://groups.google.com/g/alt.books.iain-banks/c/nbW7GxRQ6...). (Always seemed rather cruel to the drone, to me.)

There are lots of proposals. Recently, he retweeted a pundit who said that murderers should be hanged and that Europe achieved its level of civilization by executing 1-2% of its population for eugenic purposes:

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1992599328897294496#m

I can see this mandatory in a country like north korea where government would gladly use this tech to control citizens from defecting etc

but after recent EU balooney request like chat control etc, I cant be so sure anymore