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WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by andrei_says_ »

anonymouse008 wrote: post #14

I worked on custom EEGs and all I have to say is, "so long and thanks for all the fish!" Seriously though, is this really what this beautiful tech will end up being!? Come on people - have some humanity - think beyond these neanderthal brain use cases. These examples show little imagination, almost as if they are already shepherded by an AI. This tech could create true equality like nothing we've ever seen. No matter…

Funny thing - in business (as I’m war) the ones with least compassion win.

So these same people end up with the money and decide how to spend it.

It’s up to us the techies and scientists (with no money) to say no.

Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by YeBanKo »

anonymouse008 wrote: post #14

I worked on custom EEGs and all I have to say is, "so long and thanks for all the fish!" Seriously though, is this really what this beautiful tech will end up being!? Come on people - have some humanity - think beyond these neanderthal brain use cases. These examples show little imagination, almost as if they are already shepherded by an AI. This tech could create true equality like nothing we've ever seen. No matter…

> That means knowing what subjects and concepts you can commit to memory with a gifted efficiency!! Imagine the sorting hat coming to you and picking you out to join the guild of X or Y!

You are describing Isaac Asimov’s novel “Profession”.

Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by agnos »

LarryMullins wrote: post #6

WEF are either completely tone deaf, or they're playing the role of the heel. "You will own nothing and you will be happy."

This is what I don't understand. How is this and other public WEF content not guaranteed bad press/fuel for social unrest? Or is that the intent?

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Post by poszlem »

YeBanKo wrote: post #22
anonymouse008 wrote: post #14

I worked on custom EEGs and all I have to say is, "so long and thanks for all the fish!" Seriously though, is this really what this beautiful tech will end up being!? Come on people - have some humanity - think beyond these neanderthal brain use cases. These examples show little imagination, almost as if they are already shepherded by an AI. This tech could create true equality like nothing we've ever seen. No matter…

> That means knowing what subjects and concepts you can commit to memory with a gifted efficiency!! Imagine the sorting hat coming to you and picking you out to join the guild of X or Y! You are describing Isaac Asimov’s novel “Profession”.

We absolutely go in the direction of the SF dystopias. Another great example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_inferior from 1982.

Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by choward »

LinuxBender wrote: post #13
rqtwteye wrote: post #9

If there won't be a massive change of laws, all this stuff will be deployed everywhere. First the workplace and then everywhere. The whole idea of "no expectation of privacy in public spaces" doesn't work when the tech exists to deploy surveillance everywhere. The control freaks will take over.

Has anyone gone through the thought exercise of what criminals could do with such a thing if it existed?

Has anyone gone through the thought exercise of what governments could do with such a thing if it existed?

Oh wait, that's what you said.

Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by 6177c40f »

The contents of the mind should be sacrosanct- the deployment of technologies for reading the mind should go no further than it has except in medicine and research, and only then with explicit informed consent, of course. Honestly if this tech advances and becomes the norm for employers/the government/etc. to use, that's when it's time to drop out of society and become a hermit or something.

Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by choward »

peepeepoopoo3 wrote: post #2

What a relief that we have a democracy and not an oligarchy to prevent bad things like this from happening. Wouldn't that be terrible if we did?

I'm just thankful we have free speech on social media and that the government never interferes to censor people.

Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by goethes_kind »

6177c40f wrote: post #27

The contents of the mind should be sacrosanct- the deployment of technologies for reading the mind should go no further than it has except in medicine and research, and only then with explicit informed consent, of course. Honestly if this tech advances and becomes the norm for employers/the government/etc. to use, that's when it's time to drop out of society and become a hermit or something.

I agree with you, but I want to point out, everyone who has access to your search history can "read your mind".

Re: WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity

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Post by unsupp0rted »

> His employer could have prevented such a “disastrous” outcome, said Farahany, with a “simple wearable hat” that, using “embedded electro-sensors,” could measure brain wave activity and gauge “what stage of alertness the person was experiencing and whether or not they are starting to fall asleep.”

Sure... or 5 other ways that don't involve reading brain waves.

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