Baldur's Gate 3 prophesied the day that our ocean's shockingly intelligent octopuses finally have enough of our human BS and decide to start building some infrastructure. It also cautioned against the dangers of putting things in your brain, especially things offered by octopuses – do not listen to them – or worse, Elon Musk. Boss Swen Vincke of BG3 developer Larian is continuing that public safety campaign by championing implant-free alternatives to mind-controlled, Ilithid-grade gaming.
Let me explain, in the second paragraph, what the hell I'm talking about. A few weeks ago, a clip of the sixth recipient of Neuralink's Telepathy chip, one of the more on-the-nose brands of budding human-computer interfaces, had a bite of virality.
