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I don't have a problem with cybernetic augmentation, I mostly would have a problem with the state of technology companies. I likely wouldn't choose to get any because I would not be able to trust them. However, if I could get any sorta (relatively) basic augmentation, it would be built in headphones. Like to just be able to "hear" music and podcasts and audiobooks. My focus wouldn't even be upgraded hearing or anything.

So do y'all have any similar quality of life augmentations you would want?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I also have some trust issues. I'd rather not have spyware built into me.

That said if I could magically wave those problems away, I wouldn't say no to improved senses. Eyes that can see any wavelength from radio to x-rays, with different filters for wavelength and polarization available. Same for ears too.

I have actually considered(but not super seriously) getting a magnet implant so I could detect magnetic fields and current flowing in wires, what do you think the limit of that would be if you took it to an extreme?

Mental augmentations are a bit scarier. For multiple reasons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If it were guaranteed safe, I would get a regulator installed to control level of sleep. Something that could send you to sleep quickly and send a wakeup impulse at a designated time. Sleep quality would be a game changer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right now my tinnitus is killing me soooo CyberEars … but if they comes with a subscriptions I’ll support my old one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

slow down my brain on demand so boring repetitive tasks feel fast forwarded.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, I'd go the full cyborg route, like in Ghost in the Shell. This would be my first step toward adjusting my consciousness to existing within and controlling an artificial environment, ultimately aiming for fully uploaded consciousness. I'd want to exist as a cyborg for a couple of decades, then I want to be uploaded into an autonomous space probe with as many sensor types as possible and left to explore the Universe (+/- relativistic speeds, I don't really care). BUT I'd also want the possibility to erase myself, because I most certainly wouldn't want to live forever. At least, not as I see it now. This is the purely sci-fi version.

In the realistic version, a cybernetic eye and a logic co-processor to increase my background process bandwidth. Sure, a brain-computer interface would also be nice, but I somehow suspect I'd get nostalgic for the clackety-clacks and would most likely revert to analog interfacing after a point (for which I'd like that "fingers within fingers" prosthetic from GitS).

Unless, of course, Musk (or any other such) will be handling said cybermods, in which case none, thanks. I'd rather just decay and die as a basic human being than have such people tinker with my bits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A monkeys tail! Third hand, balancing, grabbing, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Full cyborgisation. Just not one made by any capitalist entity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

None cause if I have to blast all the synths out there I don’t wanna lose pieces or, worse yet, die

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to think a future with cyborgs would be pretty cool but personally, I'm not so hot on the idea anymore. The problem is that you would be beholden to whichever corporation or government manufactures and pays for parts. And who is to say that the support for whichever product that you've surgically implanted will be for life, and that you won't end up with useless landfill electronics sewed up inside of you.

Personally I think that if AI was ever made with altruistic purposes, that could fill the role of things like complex calculations and extra memory or a log. And good Augmented Reality could fill the role of interacting directly with entertainment and blocking out the outside world. And maybe one day there would be effective ways of interacting directly with computers through electrodes or even wirelessly. Although who knows how our privacy would be invaded then. There could be literal thought police in that case.

The problem is that the tech will always come from someone else. Imagine integrating this kind of tech into your life on such a deep level and then the person in charge of over seeing and maintaining this tech turns out to be an authoritarian nazi.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You mean like our real-life situation with Neuralink and the new Nazi called Elon Musk?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Cyborg butthole

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I really want some of the existing NFC and LED implants that are available, but I keep putting it off because I’m a bit squeamish about installing it myself and no professional service is near me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

joints that don't wear down over time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A brainchip would be amazing. But realistically no corporation should be in your head.

This would enable real life language translation, internet functions, scanning, a hud of vitals etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A magnum dong to go with my magnum condoms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not in order but I would like to have Bionic sight Bionic hearing Bionic joints Bionic smell Bionic sleep regulator Bionic metabolism regulator and a bionic muscle regulator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

a pair of working wings like a bat, a prehensile tail like a monkey that is strong enough to pick stuff up equally as my arms can, skin like a chameleon that can transition to the color and texture (visually) of my surroundings and regenerative cells like those immortal octopuses.

that's just for regular life, my ultimate fantasy version would have all that but also an improved ass, that sits in an office chair more comfortably so i can write TPS reports more efficiently and with better clarity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I want to give birth to our techno overlord's robot babies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I would want a body pocket of at least 100 cmΒ³, some volume controler for ears, and (personnal interest) a fully engineerable right eye

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

throws Shadowrun 2 street samurai catalog on table

This.

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