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

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Post by fullshark »

lucumo wrote: post #70
fullshark wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

You should read past the headline. The article contains more quotes you can use! 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.

Did you read it?

> All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment. We lost way too many people before we realised that we could do things differently.

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

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Post by CrazyPyroLinux »

lucumo wrote: post #63
CrazyPyroLinux wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

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

> Yes, by people with an agenda

Kafka trap.

> Then why isn't an article from The Atlantic shared?

They apparently didn't report on it? https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?q=WEF

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

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Post by chrisco255 »

tptacek wrote: post #61
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."

People with strong opinions about the World Economic Forum tend not to know (let alone understand) what it is. It isn't the Stonecutter's Lodge; it's something closer to the TED Talks organization. It's random executives networking and trying to make themselves seem more important than they are. Fun fact: companies that participate in the WEF underperform the S&P.

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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 »

fullshark wrote: post #71
lucumo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should read past the headline. The article contains more quotes you can use! 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.

Did you read it? > All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment. We lost way too many people b…

> Did you read it?

Obviously I did, or I wouldn't have said what I said.

I think that quote fits "a pretty dumb over-simplistic extrapolation of some current trends" pretty well. It's pretty dumb to select some trends to extrapolate, and ignore the ones that are not trending correctly. I'd call it "over-simplistic", but I already did...

What it doesn't describe is a plan to make the world this way. It's a prediction. A dumb prediction.

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

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Post by fullshark »

lucumo wrote: post #74
fullshark wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read it? > All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment. We lost way too many people b…

> Did you read it? Obviously I did, or I wouldn't have said what I said. I think that quote fits "a pretty dumb over-simplistic extrapolation of some current trends" pretty well. It's pretty dumb to select some trends to extrapolate, and ignore the ones that are not trending correctly. I'd call it "over-simplistic", but I already did... What it doesn't describe is a plan to make the world this way. It's a prediction.…

Fair enough, I'd encourage anyone else reading this to read the original piece and not just her damage control as well. Cause to me it reads like a thought experiment, the express purpose of which is to make the case that the western world's problems (western world = capitalism via property rights) are due to said property rights and the freedom to use that property as one wishes. I know that might seem like a shocking conspiracy theory argument if you are westerner, but the idea that property rights don't exist is standard operating procedure in the eastern world, and a idealized view of such a scenario where property rights are no longer a hinderance to economic/state activity might not be considered an outlandish position in the World Economic Forum, where I believe Ida Auken was just trying to score clout, without realizing what exactly she was saying.

Once people noticed, the damage control spin started. That's my take, disagree all you like.

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

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Post by egberts1 »

CrazyPyroLinux wrote: post #54
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?

i have 32 micro-magnetic transponders spaced micrometers apart. any attempt to get between it would only result in audible noise.

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

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Post by tptacek »

fullshark wrote: post #75
lucumo wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Did you read it? Obviously I did, or I wouldn't have said what I said. I think that quote fits "a pretty dumb over-simplistic extrapolation of some current trends" pretty well. It's pretty dumb to select some trends to extrapolate, and ignore the ones that are not trending correctly. I'd call it "over-simplistic", but I already did... What it doesn't describe is a plan to make the world this way. It's a prediction.…

Fair enough, I'd encourage anyone else reading this to read the original piece and not just her damage control as well. Cause to me it reads like a thought experiment, the express purpose of which is to make the case that the western world's problems (western world = capitalism via property rights) are due to said property rights and the freedom to use that property as one wishes. I know that might seem like a shocki…

I love the idea that the secret goal of the World Economic Forum is to subvert capitalism. Again, bringing us back to the question of whether the modal critic of the WEF knows what the WEF is in the first place.

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

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Post by tptacek »

walterbell wrote: post #32
agnos wrote: post #23

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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?

Trial/trolling balloons drive engagement and data analytics for group/individual sentiment analysis and message calibration.

They're just a few tens of thousands of ops away from deploying the HypnoDrones.

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

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Post by tptacek »

pigsty wrote: post #36
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."

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Have you considered arguing with the other WEF critic on this thread who seems to believe the WEF is a front for global communism?
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