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Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds
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You can't just leave it at that and not get on a throwaway and whistleblow.
I don't think you know what whistleblowing is.
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You can't just leave it at that and not get on a throwaway and whistleblow.
I don't think you know what whistleblowing is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower
It's exactly what I know it to be. What I don't know is what your point actually is.
The comment hinted at foul play with a technology that is completely world-changing then nips it in the bud like it was NBD.
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You can't just leave it at that and not get on a throwaway and whistleblow.
i posted a couple links in a top level comment. i didn't rezlize you replied, otr i would have done it here. can't go on alt, now. it's just a little light reading. unless it's happening in such a way that you know it's happening, you wouldn't believe it. if you're, let's say, able to read what's not there but actually really right there, then.... yeah.
also. you don't want it to happen to you. it will happen to everyone, maybe, eventually. just need everyone to know it is. then we need these people, people who are medical professionals with a strong moral and ethical code, like some of the ones who have posted 10, 15 years ago, worried about this happening "soon" back then.... well it's now, and, well, nothing's been done. i doubt it can be, yet, either.
basically. your brain is like... a computer with storage. your memories are like... replays of what happened. stored. forever. it's accessed. perused. i don't know the full extent. it's not "minor" or shoulder-shrugging, by any means. it's pretty fucked, if you know it's happening.
if you don't, then, well..... that's good for you.
the problem is.... it doesn't end with just being able to access memories.
your... well your brain controls your body.
your arms. your senses.
your legs.
your.... organs.
so. if you don't know it's happening, then, you're good, right?
that's all i have for now.
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#15“We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that,” Tang said. “We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.” This will obviously be abused decades from now. Why wouldn’t authoritarians listen in on brains that have trained transformer models based on forced textual consumption over years.
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Yeah that’s how it goes with “society”. Eventually it becomes obsessed with preserving some hallucinated shared values to the point of becoming a police state until that implodes in on itself.
No escaping the Big Bang, Big Crunch patterns of reality.
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You can't just leave it at that and not get on a throwaway and whistleblow.
i posted a couple links in a top level comment. i didn't rezlize you replied, otr i would have done it here. can't go on alt, now. it's just a little light reading. unless it's happening in such a way that you know it's happening, you wouldn't believe it. if you're, let's say, able to read what's not there but actually really right there, then.... yeah. also. you don't want it to happen to you. it will happen to ever…
Right sooooo today a corporation requires me to move about a certain way to earn money to buy food from another corporation, and pay another corporation that holds my mortgage in step with the social norms of our society that were recited to me over and over since birth.
Society already has control of your mind and motor functions.
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Related is the recently posted article that said aluminum foil hats actually magnify the signal in certain frequencies frequented by the US government
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I don't think you know what whistleblowing is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower
It's exactly what I know it to be. What I don't know is what your point actually is. The comment hinted at foul play with a technology that is completely world-changing then nips it in the bud like it was NBD.
Yeah. We need to hook the commenter up to an fmri and transformer model to understand what they are thinking.
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Just like we pay people money to sing for us, we'll pay people money to dream for us. The best dreamers and imagineers will sell their distilled thoughts for the rest of us to consume. We'll have an indie scene. We'll share them on internet platforms. Remix them. There's so much more good that will come from this than bad.
Yeah, like get this, when the world is turning to shit because of climate change and we're forced to live underground like rats, we can all collectively hallucinate what the world used to be like. It'll be grand. You'll be hallucinating, I'll be hallucinating, the AI'll be hallucinating too. "His older work was much better," ChatGPT will proclaim. "... what older work?"
> the world is turning to shit
By most objective measures, this is false. More people are being lifted out of poverty than ever before. People are also less bored, more creative, and more productive.
> because of climate change
Hasn't happened yet. Barring a runaway effect, it looks like we'll have fewer species (lamentable) but more arable land. We're still in an ice age and we're nowhere close to Cretaceous climate.
We're closer to inventing transcendent intelligence than killing it off completely.
> forced to live underground like rats
This is just vivid imagination. We're not Morlocks.