A departing OpenAI engineer wants to build telepathy without implants (naomibashkansky.com)
The announcement offers a deliberately expansive ambition—telepathy—without a technical specification in the submission. HN readers asked the questions that will decide whether it is a new interaction method or a slogan: which signals are measurable non-invasively, how much noise remains, and what reaches a model.
Privacy was the most durable concern. A tool that can infer intent must make a hard boundary between deliberate input and private thought, not merely promise a useful transcription experience.
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