Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year : pcgaming

[–] lethalspatula@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gabe, i love you, but plz no

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's your mistake, loving a billionaire.

[–] lethalspatula@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Honestly, fair

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let us have this one. Steam is the only thing in the world that hasn't enshittified yet.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

I mean...

Do you want to live in a world where there's brain chips, or one where one of the companies making brain chips is owned by Gabe?

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

Watch this be the only way to play half life 3

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Half Life 3 this year confirmed

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He has said that he'll release HL3 when technology is ready for it.

I wonder if this is what he had in mind.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Get it?? IN MIND?!?!?!

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago

Only, if everything is open source

[–] foni86@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, this shit is becoming something real? Not just an advertising trick or something? But who fuck is going to lend that crap of dystopia Cyberpunk shabby?

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

There are legitimate uses for this. People with neurological conditions, spinal injuries, etc. Would I sign up for this? Now? No. Am I willing to say the same in 30 years? I can't give a solid answer on that.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

We'll see how these things work out long term

[+] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com -9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Do we kinda like this guy or is he just another Elon but yet to achieve his final form ?

[–] Brocon@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

I think over the last 20 years enough evidence came up to support the idea that he is indeed a decent guy.

[–] ananke@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as a good (or likeable) billionaire. Forbes says Newell has a net worth of $9.5 billion US dollars. Imagine all the good he could do with that money (with regards to hunger, poverty, access to medicine, education) but instead he uses it to do stupid shit like this.

As far as I know he's not a Nazi like Leon so he's got that going for him I guess.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And you realize that to access that money he would have to sell valve/steam?

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago

Which would probably quite quickly turn it shit.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His company got a bunch of kids addicted to gambling, so who can really say?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Talking about balatro or csgo?

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Only one of those is even a Valve game. Counter-Strike, obviously.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

Gabe is mostly good, at least as far as uber wealthy goes. Maybe some stuff I'm unaware of though

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Far better than most but Valve has some controversy with gambling and CS and stuff

[–] Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Sadly i'd say both can be true at once, though there are less red flags that with Elno

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