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When brain enhancement creates inequality in relationships

My husband and I are both programmers and he got a neural coding interface that lets him work at superhuman speed but now he's bored by our conversations and impatient with my slower processing. We used to be intellectual equals and now I feel like I'm holding him back just by being unenhanced.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love requires meeting each other where we are, but enhancement changes where we are.

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“Where Are You with Brain-computer interfaces?”

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