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Well you are going to have a brain scanning device directly linked to your social credit score. That's the future.
No, it’s not. Good lord…
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If noninvasive mind reading ever becomes practical, we need to recognize the right to refuse a brain scan a universal human right. Additionally, it should be banned from being used for evidence in the courtroom. Unfortunately there will be authoritarian regimes that will use and abuse this type of tech, but we need to take a firm stand against it in liberal democracies at the very least.
That's not sufficient - it needs to be actually banned for any uses resembling employment purposes, because otherwise people will be easily pressured into it by the incentives of businesses who want their employees to be worker bees. Just look at how many businesses try to force people to waive their right to a trial by law as a condition of being a customer!
Agreed.
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#64"Seriously, what were these researchers thinking? This 'BrainGPT' thing is a disaster waiting to happen. Ching-Ten Lin and his team of potential civilization destroyers at the University of Technology Sydney might be patting themselves on the back for this, but did they stop to think about the real-world implications? We're talking about reading thoughts—this isn't sci-fi, it's real, and it's terrifying. Where's the…
Why not? There are perfectly legitimate uses for this kind of technology. This would be a godsend for those suffering from paralysis and nervous system disorders, allowing them to communicate with their loved ones. Yes, the CIA, DARPA, et. al. will be all over this (surprisingly if not already), but this is a sacrifice worth making for this kind of technology.
How many people in the whole world are paralyzed or locked in? Ten thousand? Less?
How many people in the whole world are tinpot authoritarian despots just looking for an excuse who would just love to be able to look inside your mind?
Somehow, I imagine the first number is dramatically dwarfed by the second number.
This is a technology that, once it is invented, will find more and more and more and more uses.
We need to make sure you don't spill corporate secrets, so we will be mandating that all workers wear this while in the office.
Oh no, we've just had a leak, we're gonna have to ask that if you want to work here you must wear this brain buddy home! For the good of the company.
And so on.
I'm blind, but if you offered to cure my blindness with the side effect that nobody could ever hide under the cover of darkness ( I donno, electronic eyes of some kind? Go with the metaphor!) I would still not take it.
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#65"Seriously, what were these researchers thinking? This 'BrainGPT' thing is a disaster waiting to happen. Ching-Ten Lin and his team of potential civilization destroyers at the University of Technology Sydney might be patting themselves on the back for this, but did they stop to think about the real-world implications? We're talking about reading thoughts—this isn't sci-fi, it's real, and it's terrifying. Where's the…
What does “DWIM” mean in this context? My first thought is “do what I mean”, but I suspect that isn’t what you meant.
DWIM does in fact mean Do what I mean, a DWIM gun is basically like the Imperius curse. Can't remember if I got it from @cstross or Vinge.
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There are already businesses tracking their employees' fitness for insurance purposes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness... EDIT: There's also a national legislative proposal to mandate that all cars have a system to monitor their drivers and lock them out on signs of intoxication. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drun...
The fix here is banning these sorts of potentially abusive uses, not hoping the technology itself doesn't develop.
I would agree if I didn't think there were really strong incentives and precedents for abuse of the technology.
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The fix here is banning these sorts of potentially abusive uses, not hoping the technology itself doesn't develop.
I would agree if I didn't think there were really strong incentives and precedents for abuse of the technology.
There absolutely are, but when’s the last time that stopped us advancing new tech?
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#68It’s crazy to me that someone has developed a technology that literally reads peoples mind fairly accurately and its just like a semi popular post on Hacker News.
Do people not think of _anything_ while they're reading besides the text that they're reading? I think of all kinds of other stuff while I'm reading books.
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#69With half of individuals reportedly having no internal monologue, would this be useless with them? Or just render unintelligible results?
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Invisible except for the 72 EEG probes strapped to your head.
These are also wet electrodes meaning you need to apply gel to every single one. You’ll notice that the person wearing it is also not blinking or using any facial muscles, as that activity would completely throw off the very weak brain signals.
Sounds like they'd benefit from being in a sensory deprivation pool to enhance the quality of the signal!
