recently remembered a friend telling me about his implants and sent me a few links, thought a decent chunk of the people here would fall under the target audience for this would you ever get a chip implant? obviously musk type neuralink stuff is a resounding no, but the more common type of biohacking chip implants seem to mostly just be very basic and used for very mundane purposes, and from what i've seen they're based off of magnetics and don't have the power sources or means in order to invoke paranoia inducing biometrics surveilance also i think my imagination's ran wild with this one but i cant help but think that the fact that you have to specify chip implant type stuff when searching for biohacking on mainstream search engines, lest you be flooded with "lifestyle hacking" and self improvement stuff is an intentional shroud anyway https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/quick-technology-primer/13320
2 Name: Anonymous2025-08-16 19:18
I've always thought this stuff was cool conceptually, but it has made zero progress since the 2000s when I first heard about it. The only things you can do are implant a magnet or rfid chip. The magnet implant is a fun party trick but I don't think anyone would argue it's genuinely very useful. rfid seems equally pointless, when a simple card on a lanyard will achieve the same effect without surgery. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a cool party trick, but I've been disappointed that it never went further than that.
The real development in biohacking has been a more widespread adoption of endocrine modification (sometimes this is identified as the distinction between "cyberpunk" and "biopunk"). Unfortunately, even this extremely tame desire of some people to switch out one hormone with another, has faced an absurdly disproportional negative backlash. And this usecase is too limited for me. I'll be interested when novel synthetic hormones are developed which aren't just either testosterone or estrogen. Let a thousand new sexes bloom.
3 Name: Anonymous2025-08-25 20:25
you already got nanomachines, CRISPr, stem cells, cloning you don't have root privilieges to program yourself
would you ever get a chip implant?
obviously musk type neuralink stuff is a resounding no, but the more common type of biohacking chip implants seem to mostly just be very basic and used for very mundane purposes, and from what i've seen they're based off of magnetics and don't have the power sources or means in order to invoke paranoia inducing biometrics surveilance
also i think my imagination's ran wild with this one but i cant help but think that the fact that you have to specify chip implant type stuff when searching for biohacking on mainstream search engines, lest you be flooded with "lifestyle hacking" and self improvement stuff is an intentional shroud
anyway
https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/quick-technology-primer/13320