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WEF are either completely tone deaf, or they're playing the role of the heel. "You will own nothing and you will be happy."
The actual talk https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-m...
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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...
Yes, by people with an agenda of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.
> The source of the original talk is the CEO of The Atlantic,
Then why isn't an article from The Atlantic shared? And do we instead of the rely on the trustworthiness of some untrustworthy rag?
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…
> This tech could create true equality like nothing we've ever seen. No matter where you are on earth, even with the poorest of educational systems, we could know what you naturally 'master' with this tech. 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! > > But instead we want to t…
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-…
https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/welcome-to-2030-i-ow...
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.
> 1) I advocate a right to #cognitiveliberty over our brains and mental experiences
> 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
* "Here's 2 shapes. Press the triangle."
* "Here's 2 numbers. Press the bigger one."
It would have to be something a trucker can easily solve at a glance, barely taking their eyes off the road. And they get a couple tries, a couple warnings, and then a loud siren and the event gets logged with their employer. 3 strikes system or something.
There's a dozen ways this could fail, but it's a fun thought experiment: "how do you determine a trucker is awake and functioning, without distracting them too much, annoying them too much, getting too many false positives, or putting electrodes on their brain?"
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> 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.
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".
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> "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-…
Those crazy conspiracy theorists thinking "life has never been better" was a marker that this was a utopian vision. https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/welcome-to-2030-i-ow...
It's also a pretty dumb over-simplistic extrapolation of some current trends. But not an evil plot to change the world into her utopia.