In all seriousness I really do code in my sleep sometimes. I wake up and remember how to fix something tricky. If it meant I could knock off early I guess I could cope with this 🤔
Thing is, your PM wouldn’t have you clocking out at all, if it meant pushing the project closer to completion. You think they’re concerned with your sleep cycle now? This would be even less of a reason to do so.
Ignoring the capitalistic dystopia this represents, I have no interest in letting a techbro ultrasound my brain, especially to be more productive with my work.
People love to think of brain-tech as sci-fi magic that will improve everything, but there’s zero chance it doesn’t devolve into the same profit focused mess we already have with every other tech field. Having even more of my person commodified is not something I’m interested in welcoming.
I mean, even lucid dreaming is still dreaming. It won’t really be a good idea to let unconscious people write code (or anything for general consumption)
Right?! Last lucid dream I had I was sure I had written the coolest song ever, people in the dream thought it was amazing. I knew it was a dream, but fuzzy dream me was genuinely excited to remember it when I woke up.
From what I recall it was a country western rap/chant... Spoiler: It was not a good song.
This is just the less fun version of hypnospace outlaw, where you can just do basically Myspace in your sleep instead of work. Great video game, big recommend
If they end up becoming a successful company, that in fact can induce lucid dreaming at will, how long do you think it will be before they start showing us dream ads?
Start up company, ridiculous product, fortune magazine… It’s bullshit invester advertising. Probably fraudulent too based on Fortunes track record of promotion.
Theres no working product yet. Last this was posted they’re measuring lucid dreamers sleep, AND THEN they’re going to use some transducers to stimulate someone’s brain to hit observed conditions. But it’s all in theory now.
I wouldn’t want to be a guinea pig for this, that’s for sure. Can’t imagine anything going wrong.
Taking advantage of the unique aspects of organic processing would have made way more sense than our convoluted and comparatively inefficient, especially in context, power output. Also closes the loop, at least somewhat, on “why didn’t they make people vegetables.”
Oh god, that sounds so much better than the battery idea. But yeah I could totally see regular audiences not being able to understand that. Morpheus really succinctly summed up his argument when he just pulled out a AA battery in that scene. Such a good movie moment.
Sleep is one of the few respites from the drudgery and harshness of this world. In the offchance it can actually be hijacked for more labor, do not let it be stolen.
Oh I’m right there with you, if I can get paid to sleep work, and not have to work while awake, and be rested when I wake up after my shift, I’d be all for it. But that just sounds way too good to be true.
I’d rather work 8 hours awake and have the lucid dreaming just add to my leisure time tbh. Seems a waste to unlock the dreamworld just to be office drones in it.
What kind of work lets you get away with zero social communication and interaction for the entirety of 8 hours a day? Even in the “coding” example, there is a fair bit of collaboration in software development.
Even assuming this kind of job exists, your corporate overlords will push for mandatory 8hr day work + 8hr sleep work and only pay you 4 hours for it.
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