Nowhere is safe
Nowhere is safe
People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?
Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, which occurs when the person having a dream is aware they are sleeping. The goal is to give people control over their dreams, so they can use that time productively. A CEO could practice for an upcoming board meeting, an athlete could run through plays, a web designer could create new templates—“the limiting factor is your imagination,” founder and CEO Eric Wollberg told Fortune.
Edit: someone else beat me to it, I cede to you my bruh
The thing is, this COULD be great, people with physical impairments or just those who'd prefer to work this way could enjoy thier day without the stress of work.
The problem is that it will 100% be used to extend your existing working hours, so that not a moment goes by your not generating revenue.
Sigh...
Yeah, fuck that, I'm flying around doing crazy shit in dreams I control. Unless I get paid hourly.
“Yeah boss … I came up with this really cool solution while I was dreaming but I couldn’t remember it when I woke up so I’m gonna need to get some more sleep hours in to try to find it again.”
And you really don't have that level of control over your dreams while lucid dreaming.
Almost never had the pleasure, but I believe one of the main tipoffs that you're dreaming is whatever text you're looking at will be illegible. And they are expecting coding to happen.
Though the more interesting screw up is there exists any CEO anywhere that honestly believes I'm not going to use this for porn.
I've had a small number of lucid experiences and one time I was able to literally do whatever I wanted. Including flight and teleportation. I woke up after what felt like a few minutes though, which was a bummer.
Who needs to work 10 hours a day when you can work 24? Company owners are going to be so turned on by these news.
Also I have to say, I love how the limiting factor is our imagination but all they could come up with is about working more.
It's made by the same person as neuralink. It will never be commercialised.
I just solved a coding problem this morning that I couldn’t last night because I RESTED MY BRAIN. I’m not making this up. This just happened.
I took a week off for Thanksgiving and came back to understand Dynamo DB single table patterns I was stuck on before leaving. Sleep learning is real!
Anyone who does this when they're stressed out knows how awful it is to be stuck thinking about a work problem over and over again and never feeling truly rested.
Often I do not wake up having solved the problem, I simply wake up feeling like the problem is hopeless because I've been obsessing over it instead of resting and never solving it
Employers: "Software Engineers are too expensive."
Also employers: "Why is our stuff not working?"
"Designers are too expensive."
"Why are we late and over budget, and it still barely works?"
Getting beefbrain so my boss makes a couple extra bucks.
It's bosses all the way up.
Great, now I'll get sexual harassment charges even when I'm sleeping.
The amount of people I've had sex with in my sleep... I'd end up with several life sentences I think.
I'm not sleeping in. It's OT.
Expending the whole bed room.
I swear, if I have to start doing work in my sleep, I'm gonna commit a genocide.
Those fuckers are trying to make the Matrix a reality.
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?
Jokes on you, corpo. I'll sing the Song of Cthulhu and bring his day of madness ever closer.
The lesser of two evils.
This is both draconian and absolutely retarded. Reeks of a venture capitalist who doesn’t know anything about basic biology, psychology, or technology. The lucid dreaming state is not one of intense cognitive performance and reasoning, and even if you were able to do that heavy of a workload while “asleep”, your brain wouldn’t actually be getting any sleep. When you “wake up” you would be absolutely mentally exhausted and have to go back to actual sleep.
That's some LinkedIn lunacy, for sure. Hard pass.
Relax guys, it's just another scam start up to steal money from dumbass investors. It'll never reach a prototype.
And here I've been spending just 2/3 of my life in productive wage earning hours like a moron
That sounds literally impossible
Yeah, I can lucid dream, but it's really difficult to make text look coherent. Even if I could visualize code, it's damn near impossible to retain the details after you wake up.
Even your dreams are now corporate IP.
I already code in my sleep. I wake up sometimes and have code concepts ready to go. It's kinda wild.
There's nothing like solving a coding problem in your sleep.
I've literally woken up and rushed to the computer because I came up with an answer to a problem I had while sleeping lol
In a world with a solid support structure like universal basic income, where people would never be forced to sleepwork to survive, this could be quite cool. There could be some amazing artist/engineer collabs done.
What you mean to say is you are developing a nervegear and we are closer to SAO than ever
SAO, but instead of playing in an RPG, it's just a virtual desk job
why would an engineer write code
it may be faster to make your own tool than put in a ticket to your global support team and then the 20 meetings on documentation and validation asssuming they go it this year. Just for something you could have made yourself in a week. Request like add a pull down to the ordering form takes like a year and that's after 5 calls and a presentation on how this will improve global sales. So much frustrating.