sources and image transcript:
- the top half of the image is screenshot of this article about a startup claiming to be able to use ultrasound to induce lucid dreams so that “people can work in their sleep”. (spoiler: it’s vaporware)
- the lower half of the image is a screenshot from this (imo worth-watching) 2 minute video from 2016: Hayao Miyazaki’s thoughts on an artificial intelligence with the subtitle “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” There is a more detailed description of that video here. (Guillermo del Toro agrees.)
For anyone who thinks this would be a good tradeoff, this would be the worst sleep of your life.
I’ve only had sleep paralysis a couple times and it was always because I was stressed about homework/work and my brain kept trying to work through the problems in my sleep. It is a terrible experience. Sleep is about way more than physical rest. Depriving your brain of good sleep will ruin your memory and make functioning during the day exceedingly difficult.
Plus, let’s look at what employers did in response to women entering the workforce. Has average household income doubled? No, pay has stagnated to the point of households needing two incomes to meet expenses. Don’t expect working through your sleep to mean a life of leisure in the day. You’re more likely to see wages fall to the point where everyone needs a day job plus a sleep job.
Lucid dreaming is just becoming aware that you are dreaming. Doesn’t affect sleep quality at all. Now forcing a lucid dream seems like it might make you sleep worse, but I’m sceptical it even works tbh
I don’t think anyone’s saying that the lucid dreaming alone is bad.
It’s exploiting the lucid dream state to force people to work when they should be resting.
Didn’t you have ads in the 20th century?
Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!It’s important to draw a line SOMEWHERE don’t you think?
Just like people have to work every second of their waking life, it’s important to draw a line in the sand and say “I will not work in my dreams, fuck you!”
Yes, the line is that we should ban both ads and wage labour in the waking world too.
Workers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!
Through victory our chains are broken!
The force shall free me
On the blood of our fathers. On the blood of our sons. We swore to uphold the covenant!
Even to our dying breath!
did you know that when gorillas, chimps and other apes and monkeys have someone in their group that’s hoarding a bunch of food, the other apes in the pack will gang up on the one hoarding resources and eat the hoarder?
just something to think about I guess
