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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 lucumo »

agnos wrote: post #23
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?

Could simply be false or misleading reporting. LifeSite doesn't seem to be a very reliable news site. According to Wikipedia:

> LifeSiteNews (or simply LifeSite) is a Canadian Catholic conservative anti-abortion advocacy website and news publication. LifeSiteNews has published misleading information and conspiracy theories, and in 2021, was banned from some social media platforms for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.

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

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Post by htkibar »

noughtme wrote: post #43
at_a_remove wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think they care. They can just shrug and say "Misinformation" and "You need to stop letting the alt-right scare you." And ten years later when you're squeezing the last of the bug-paste ("New Crunchy style!") out of your pre-third shift meal supplement packet and reading on the telescreen how the chocolate ration has been increased to five grams, well, you won't want to do anything rebellious in your safe lit…

> Amaflix and Marv-Ney What's Marv-Ney?

MARV-el, dis-NEY

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

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Post by anonymouse008 »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #38
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…

> Imagine the sorting hat coming to you and picking you out to join the guild of X or Y! Is it really reliable to such an extent? It sounds a bit "IQ 2.0" to me and outside of predicting university admission likelihood I feel like IQ isn't necessarily a strong indicator of much.

I was continuously shocked at how well we could figure out mastery vs guessing by combining adaptive testing with a read of cognitive engagement.

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Post by CrazyPyroLinux »

egberts1 wrote: post #18

I wear a 32-wire neural tap, courtesy of Johns Hopkins. as long as you control the input, you have little to fear. Besides, it is a simple set of probes, no bio-embedded processing. Think Cochlear implant.

What is this and what does it do?

> as long as you control the input

Do you? Will you always? I'm assuming this is different from Neuralink?

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Post by anonymouse008 »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #39
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!! Are you missing a "/s" here? There are lots of things I enjoy doing that I absolutely suck at. Doesn't make them less enjoyable.

I’m gzipping the point, but you’re pointing out the exact benefit of ‘the good’ neuroscience. “Suck at” does not mean what you think it means… your brain could be engaged at an optimal level, finding a rejuvenating cycle of effort and rest. That’s the stuff you should chase

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

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Post by CrazyPyroLinux »

lucumo wrote: post #48
user- wrote: post #10

The amount of bias on this news site is overwhelming, so im going to take this whole article with some skepticism.

Good call. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeSiteNews : > LifeSiteNews (or simply LifeSite) is a Canadian Catholic conservative anti-abortion advocacy website and news publication. LifeSiteNews has published misleading information and conspiracy theories, and in 2021, was banned from some social media platforms for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.

Ooooh "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories"... also often (but not always!) known as "spoiler warnings"

edit/addendum: The source of the original talk is the CEO of The Atlantic, so accusations of media bias of the middleman source may be casting stones in a glass house...

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

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Post by trekkie1024 »

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #49
unsupp0rted wrote: post #30

> 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.

Perhaps cameras that feed some sort of AI vision service trained to detect how much time has been spent driving, and automatically call their boss? How else could a trucker possibly be stopped from driving so far? Lol

1. GPS tracking

2. What you said above, already possible [1]

3. An electronic distance limiter on the truck itself

[1] https://www.cadillac.com/ownership/vehicle-technology/super-...

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

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Post by _-david-_ »

upstarter wrote: post #42

The boss of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, publicly said "In 2030, you will own nothing and you will be happy." Let that sink in. That's how psychopathic those people are.

Schwab did not say that. It was Danish MP Ida Auken.

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Post by lucumo »

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."

> "You will own nothing and you will be happy."

This is not a goal and not a plan. It was a prediction, a possible scenario of where we could be headed. An extrapolation of current trends.

Using the full quote would make it far clearer that that's what it was: > “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy. What you want you’ll rent, and it’ll be delivered by drone.”

From https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-wef-idUSKBN2AP2...

> Danish politician Ida Auken, who wrote the prediction in question (here), said it was not a “utopia or dream of the future” but “a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse.”

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