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>>12623523
i think it's gonna finally die after BCIs happen. the first huge impact of BCIs will be providing effective symptomatic treatment of most mental disorders. it's gonna be dangerous and will be perhaps the ultimate (in both senses of highest-intensity and FINAL) 'new addictive drug' crisis, but unlike past drugs in the cycle it will be (hopefully) relatively very easy/reliable to use responsibly (if so inclined) and by its nature simply impossible to 'control'. they'll almost surely try, but there's a fundamental difference that where very few are capable of synthesizing their own psychopharma, anyone with a BCI will in practice already have everything they need but for whatever software lock the quacks try to force on it.

there's a potential of their losing both their monopoly and predatory cycle of abuse simultaneously, and I don't know what else they'd have left after that. I think you'd see a shitload of them jumping to unmasked religiosity, at that point.