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I agree. Once we develop the ability to upload and modify brains, it will be easy to morph them. We can extract the primal desire to defend yourself, to become
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
I agree. Once we develop the ability to upload and modify brains, it will be easy to morph them. We can extract the primal desire to defend yourself, to become angry, to want to own property. These emotions will be reserved for the founders.
It will take time to get there. Many will resist, so we have to keep our goal a secret. But people are gullible. With our morphogenic brain technology, we can give people experiences they've only dreamed of. Think of it. The high of heroin, with none of the downsides. The ability to know instantly when any of your loved ones are in distress. The ability to shape yourself and your children into any form you desire.
If we appeal to base emotions, if we appeal to their need to control, to own, to shape, then we can implement our plan.
- lossolo 9y ago> Many will resist, so we have to keep our goal a secret. This is not democracy. Every dictatorship begins with "I know better what is good for you than you do". You should watch movie "Equilibrium" with Christian Bale. I don't think you really want that, it only sounds good in theory.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoWell, it was firmly tongue in cheek. :) I've been thinking of trying to write some short stories pulling from various themes in technology. Most ideas have been done to death, but with a bit of skill it might be possible to write something worth reading. A tangent, but: I've been wondering how a novelist builds their skill. They're not born with it. One idea would be to watch a movie and write it like a book, transcribing it scene for scene. I'm not sure whether that'd help, though.
- hellbanner 9y agoRe tangent: Steven King's "on writing" or Ray Bradbury's "en in the art of writing" write 1000 words a day, be crap for decades, eventually you get skilled.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoNo ideas about the second, but an aside on the first. 'Most ideas have been done to death' is a central reason I have stopped reading novels that much. Ah its one of those, he will do this. Ah yes, I see the twist. its one of those.
- bllguo 9y agoI highly empathize with this. These days I'm just interested in imagination. I don't care if a book or novel or movie is good. I will most likely never consume it. I'm looking up synopses and scanning them for innovative ideas.
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- ghurtado 9y agoI hope you're being 100% sarcastic. If you're not, I must ask: is your name Andrew Ryan perchance?
- honestoHeminway 9y agoWe are the borg,we want to turn your head into svedish furniture-futures.