[HN Gopher] Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in...
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Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep
Author : pavel_lishin
Score : 24 points
Date : 2023-12-02 14:38 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| billy99k wrote:
| Yay! I can work during the day and when I'm sleeping.
| loa_in_ wrote:
| Surprises no one
| CrzyLngPwd wrote:
| https://archive.is/adKxv
| willtemperley wrote:
| The fastest possible way to burn out. Sleep is for healing and
| recovery. Dreaming in code has always been my sign to slow down.
| chatmasta wrote:
| Yeah. I've had those nights, and they always come just before a
| month of burnout and zero coding, not even whilst awake...
| zamalek wrote:
| This is probably for people who are skipping sleep for work,
| and are therefore already cognitively compromised and making
| bad decisions.
| pedalpete wrote:
| So...they think the FDA will let them burn brain cells so people
| can "stablize lucid dreaming", ignoring that the science behind
| this is completely unproven.
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| https://www.fusfoundation.org/the-technology/mechanisms-of-a...
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| We're in the neurotech/sleeptech space, and it amazes me that
| something like this can get funded.
| krapp wrote:
| Neat. Now the only escape from capitalism will be death.
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Just you wait https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
| LocalH wrote:
| Leave it to the capitalists to decide "all those people sleeping?
| we should find a way to make them work while they sleep so I can
| make more money!"
|
| Fuck outta here. What gives them the right to decide that? Money?
| Pfft. Money is overrated.
| TedHerman wrote:
| The Waterfall method, Agile, ... and eventually, Inception
| Programming.
| latexr wrote:
| Another Torment Nexus. Humanity is becoming a parody of itself.
|
| https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus
| whoknew1122 wrote:
| Work-life balance is when you work the same amount of time at
| work and when asleep. Right?
| rcbdev wrote:
| The CEO apparently spent his entire working life in New York with
| a brief stint in Tel Aviv. Only an American could seriously come
| up with and attempt to execute on this idea.
| gumballindie wrote:
| But why since ai will replace them? /s
| smusamashah wrote:
| Work is something they are selling it with, which is really a
| stupid way to market it, does it actually induce lucid dreams
| successfully though. I would buy if it does, more so if it could
| keep me lucid longer than I can currently do.
| jzombie wrote:
| In other news, an energy startup has figured out how to extract
| perpetual energy from the C-suite by hooking electrodes up to
| them and injecting them with meth.
| zingerlio wrote:
| Would I hallucinate code in my dream better than an LLM?
| nico wrote:
| It's like the night people episode from Season 6 of Rick and
| Morty
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| Watch it if you want to see how good of an idea it is to be able
| to work in your sleep
| brettermeier wrote:
| Oh man this is dumb shit.
| sebastiennight wrote:
| Hmmm... So that's how to go from 10x developer to 24x developer.
| Sign me up!
| PhasmaFelis wrote:
| As far as I can tell, all they're actually promising is a way to
| enable lucid dreaming. Nothing do to with work at all.
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| Only somehow they've decided that the best way to market is "you
| can have a lucid dreamland where you can do anything you want
| inside your head, and that means _you can think about work all
| night._ "
|
| Which is utterly baffling. Who's the target market for this
| claim? Billionaire venture capitalists who want to make their
| staff work all night and also don't pay enough attention to
| funding applications before signing them?
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