Why do people do this shit to themselves?
I swear if the Borg came down some people would be lining up to join the club.
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Hey, free healthcare!
Insert robo-eye since the left eye is not perfect 20/20
Anything breaks, we'll just replace it.
Including the brain. Especially the brain.
Borg-Garek, is that you?
Free healthcare, housing, energy... and I won't have to think anymore, sounds great to me!
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
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Why are you all aiming at me?
They are tech writers, that's their job
my private fan theory is that the Borg are actually the good guys but we only ever hear the gReAt fEdErAtIoN's POV
If it actually worked, it would be really useful for a lot of people (it's me. I'm a lot of people)
Yeah, if the Borg weren't so violent towards non Borg they would be the actual end goal of a lot of nerds. You're telling me we could be socialist cyborgs in space?
But the federation is already socialist.
So? Can't the Borg also be socialist? We have multiple capitalist groups right here in real life
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And has cyborgs
Star Trek Spoiler
See Picard series 2 for that
Quoting the renowned Mike Wazowski: "How many kids you got in there?"
Journalists? Probably just to see how it will go wrong and report about it so we don‘t have to.
I would be lining up to become part of the Borg tbf. It's basically giga-socialism
I don't think you understand what the Borg are about.
Fully providing every single need to their people in an attempt to create the most efficient worker possible? It just so happens that their "work" is assimilating people into the hive, but... The methods surrounding their work are pretty nice.
Amazing. Can't tell if you're joking or you are for real.
Amazing. You've yet to actually make a point in this conversation, only disparage mine without any counterargument lol
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I mean... the method is basically "join us or die"... I don't think that's particularly nice...
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Do you? The Borg are a collective consciousness, it’s the most democratic government in the galaxy.
My only problem with the Borg is they have a queen.
Democracy isn't that everyone is being forced to be of the same opinion. They don't vote for their actions, the hive mind overrides each personality with the overarching Borg characteristics, mean assimilation of every worthy race, eradication of danger. There is no individual left in this. If you think that is democracy or socialism then I don't know what else to tell you.
I don't think enforced conformity through literal mind control counts as democracy.
If it wasn't for the whole forcing people thing, they probably would.
Their tech is much better, and you get as close to immortality as you can get, since your body is maintained by their tech, and your mind gets added to the hivemind.
Short of death, you'd never have a medical problem again.
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I compared Bee’s version of my day with my diary entry. I wrote about trying Paddington Bear-themed marmalade sandwiches in our office kitchen. (Not a fan. I did, however, note that the strawberry-flavored shortbread cookie was excellent.) I wrote several paragraphs about a sensitive text conversation I had with a friend. Bee never picked up these moments because memorable things aren’t always spoken aloud. It made me wonder: in a hypothetical future where everyone has a Bee, do unspoken memories simply not exist?
I liked reading this part because I had not considered that consumers of these products would have an expectation of their device to document their thoughts.
It makes sense though, doesn't it? I imagine someone going in knowing it's machine learning doesn't have too many false assumptions, but they are being programmed in a way to mimic humans. The voice recognition part has come an incredible long way and I would not be surprised that this makes the uninitiated expect more of the language model than actually is there.
In this era of atomic isolation, even I wanted to believe it's true. Having an algorithm that remembers my name through reboots would deepen the sense that there is a pretty developed entity helping me. Luckily I skimp on the premium versions.
So it listens to you and you can “permit it” to read emails and all that shit? I didn’t even know this kind of thing existed let alone that anyone would CHOOSE to allow this. Crazy.
I find it stupid yet somehow helpful.
It records everything you say, it also takes your time after to read the scripts, which could can be helpful at some point.
It's a no from me.
I think the Borg would take one look at me and declare me a total loss.
I outsourced my memory to an AI pin
This part is enough to ensure things are gonna get dystopian real quick. Spoiler: they do, and the thing also fails a lot.
I like how they put in italics “it listens to all your conversations” and yet it’s still third in the list. Reminds me of how most mass media approach mass surveillance!
ewwww, a paywall.
You need to learn to jump over the wall https://archive.is/2025.03.12-190857/https://www.theverge.com/reviews/627056/bee-review-ai-wearable
A Firefox fork like IronFox with an aggressive adblocker setup like uBlock Origin in medium mode blocks paywalls and all kinds of annoying popups on most sites. Takes a bit of tweaking to not break some sites, but after that it's amazing.
other people have made good suggestions as well but I use Bypass Paywalls Clean as a Firefox add-on and it works great
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Unlike the Rabbit R1 or the Humane AI Pin
And they describe the exact same crap.
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