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Using Neuro-Physiological Responses to Chill Music to Defeat Coercion Attacks

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Re: Using Neuro-Physiological Responses to Chill Music to Defeat Coercion Attacks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite: "Chill music and stress are both stimuli for a neuro-chemical called Dopamine. However, they release the Dopamine at different parts of the brain ..."

Er, what? That doesn't contradict GP. The system is designed to prevent login if you're too stressed.

I stand corrected; my bad.

Re: Using Neuro-Physiological Responses to Chill Music to Defeat Coercion Attacks

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This will work for the first handful of times! But, like using your favorite song as an alarm for an early class or a stressful job, it creates a large problem for the user and their music taste: The user's favorite piece of calming music will now be consistently connected as an alarm for the more stressful times of their profession/life. Eventually, playing that music at any other point will induce some level of pan…

https://youtu.be/Jv1Bmne20l4 -- a scene from Clockwork Orange. (Viewer discretion heads-up)

[edit: just realized "lovely lovely Ludwig Van" has been replaced by the uploader. Practically criminal to mess with Kubrik's work ;)]

Re: Using Neuro-Physiological Responses to Chill Music to Defeat Coercion Attacks

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This will work for the first handful of times! But, like using your favorite song as an alarm for an early class or a stressful job, it creates a large problem for the user and their music taste: The user's favorite piece of calming music will now be consistently connected as an alarm for the more stressful times of their profession/life. Eventually, playing that music at any other point will induce some level of pan…

One day I woke up to the usual buzzer of my decades old alarm clock and decided I would never hear that horrible thing again. I bought an alarm clock that, in theory, wakes you slowly with gradually increasing light and finally, a pleasant little bird song when it's time to get out of bed. Now, I hate that @#&%ing bird instead of a buzzer.

Needing an alarm clock to wake up is a sign that you don't get enough sleep. You should sleep until you naturally wake up.
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