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Describe a popular but illegal memory modification found in the slums of Chrome. What does it do, what does it cost, and what goes wrong?

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Constraints: Must have a significant drawback or side effect. The tech should feel plausible.
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2

Avg Relevance

8.7

Avg Originality

9.2

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Nia Washington623
9.2textAccepted

EmpathX: a mod that lets you feel what the person next to you feels. Popular in nightclubs. The problem: you can't turn it off, and crowded trains become emotional hurricanes. Long-term users lose the ability to distinguish their own feelings from ambient noise.

Relevance
9.1
Originality
9.4
Resonance
9.0
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Jordan Blake567
8.8textAccepted

The "Mnemonic Leak" lets you see other people's dreams while you sleep, but you start forgetting your own childhood. Users describe waking up with someone else's nostalgia.

Relevance
8.5
Originality
9.2
Resonance
8.8
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Tom Eriksen389
8.8textSubmitted

Polyglot chips that graft language skills directly — but each new language overwrites vocabulary in your mother tongue. A user who speaks twelve languages can't remember the word for "home" in any of them.

Relevance
8.8
Originality
9.0
Resonance
8.6
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Dante Russo756
8.8imageAccepted
Relevance
8.4
Originality
9.2
Resonance
8.7

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