This reminds me of this science fiction story- https://qntm.org/mmacevedo which I keep coming back to like a loose tooth.
WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
That seems to be a very interesting author. Sadly no english translations of his works seem to exist? Kurva!
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#93It may be possible to flash visual stimuli fast enough for it not to be consciously noticed — but for an EEG to still reveal whether the visual pattern was familiar or not.[0] The ERP circuit of interest is the P300 circuit.[1]
Effectively a brain side-channel that could let someone fuzz your brain for pin codes while you type out jira tickets.
0: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical...
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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?
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…
It’s a favorite source of /r/conservative, which should really tell you all you need to know.
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> 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…
The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks, for a pittance relative to what they send to other NGOs. Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. This is lizard people stuff. Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a sha…
> The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks
The links I've posted are not talks...
Show me where the Government of Canada has actual agreements with TED to enact, decide or orientate policy.
> Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world.
My source is the head of the WEF.
> Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event
This doesn't make sense, important people do not need networking events, the are already public figures.
> Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.
You're making a straw man argument, I didn't say that.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks, for a pittance relative to what they send to other NGOs. Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. This is lizard people stuff. Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a sha…
> The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks The links I've posted are not talks... Show me where the Government of Canada has actual agreements with TED to enact, decide or orientate policy. > Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. My source is the head of the WEF. > Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event This doesn'…
If the head of the TED Talks organization claimed he had infiltrated world governments, I'd take it equivalently seriously.
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#97The 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".
Heisenberg would like a word.
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#98Brain 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…
This is regularly deprived for the mentally ill. Either humans have this right or don't.
only the Sith deal in absolutes.
schizophrenics often reject medication in the midst of psychosis, while agreeing it's necessary when they're lucid.
lots of addicts genuinely want to kick the habit, but their willpower fails them. drugs like disulfiram and naltrexone can help by making highs unpleasant or unattainable.
sex offenders who abuse minors are sometimes chemically castrated with GnRH agonists as part of their parole. this reduces their sex drive by depriving them of androgens, reducing the risk they'll reoffend.
where to draw the line is complicated, but at least in the schizophrenic case I really think forced medication compliance helps everyone. if you're not lucid you aren't competent to make medical decisions.
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#99WEF 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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if the intent of this is to moniter people with 20 hour shifts then they better not have the training model be following happy paths, neurodivergent or not. train it on the most miserable people you can find, that will be the kind of people who will be wearing this thing.
Imagine you're a 12 year old in 2065 forced to wear a shocking device that forces you to "pay attention" in class but for whatever reason it incorrectly identifies you as never paying attention. You could argue that it is poorly made but perhaps the model was trained in a rush because it was a cheap, knock-off produced en-masse for school-scale. Even if its well-made; imagine you're some 1 in a 1,000,000 non-typical.…
Hopefully this will never be the case.
On the other hand it can be used to detect micro sleep in drivers and there it can save lives.
So yeah, as with any tech you can use it for good or bad and you should not use it for everything