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

Post by mansoon » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 1:43 AM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #5

Brain ethicist from Duke Law, https://law.duke.edu/fac/farahany/ > [Farhany] believes an important defense against potential abuses of privacy using such technology is pre-emptively “recognizing a right to cognitive liberty, a right to self-determination over our brains and mental experiences,” and added that “it requires that we update existing international human rights … “Speaking as a CEO, I’m sure all CEOs will…

Post by TeeMassive » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:06 AM UTC

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.

Post by tptacek » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:21 AM UTC

TeeMassive wrote: post #83

tptacek wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> it's something closer to the TED Talks This is blatantly not true. TED doesn't make official agreements with governments: https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2015/01/canada-joins-w... https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2021/vol3/ds6/i... https://ktdi.org/ > It's random executives networking and trying to make themselves seem more important than they are. And government officials. Schwab bragged about "i…

Post by pram » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:46 AM UTC

fullshark wrote: post #75

lucumo wrote: post #74

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> 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…

Post by fullshark » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:55 AM UTC

pram wrote: post #87

fullshark wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

To me it just comes off as apologetics for more extractive/rent-seeking arrangements. Of course capitalists would like you to pay a subscription for everything you use.