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Imagine the scary future of retargeting. - Doctor, I hear voices in my head - Don't worry, it's just ads

by webdwarf 8y ago

doorbellguy 8y ago
Since this stuff is based on lasers, don't we have to be in LOS for it to work?
- gmueckl 8y ago
  Yes, but the laser is IR. So what is and is not transparent is different from visible light.
mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.
- rolleiflex 8y ago
  That’s not Black Mirror, that’s Tuesday. Meet Google Contributor: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-google-not-to-see-them-plus-sites-can-charge-ad-blocker-users/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-go...
  - ChucklesNorris 8y ago
    And apps. I hate flashing ads, I always pay the extra to be left alone. But I wonder, how many have fake, extra annoying ads? It's almost like extortion. But as technology progresses, I can see a future where AI and facial recognition and this targeted sound will torment every person, everywhere they go. The more recent Time Machine movie showed a bit of this.
- aasasd 8y ago
  Henry Kuttner and his wife C.L. Moore described hyper-aggressive physical ads and ad-blockers in the short story “Year Day,” published in '53. Notably, the anthology that first included the story is named “Ahead of Time.”
bryanrasmussen 8y ago
I wonder if you could, with the right combination of technologies, induce schizophrenia in a subject. Of course since I am in Europe my wondering will not be turned into a DARPA grant.
- ddorian43 8y ago
  Schizophrenia has multiple symptoms. Currently there's only "hearing voices".
  - bryanrasmussen 8y ago
    hence the phrase: right combination of technologies.
    - ddorian43 8y ago
      Missed that, sorry. Maybe with a psychotic pill (like there's atypical antipsychotics)
- Nasrudith 8y ago
  More fake than induce without the disordered thinking that comes along with it. Normal people can hallucinate under stress to some degree and it can be shockingly subtle and non-disruptive. Like thinking their downstairs neighbor is being noisy but it turns out they were away on vacation. Interestingly the tone of hallucinations is very culturally shaped - western ones tend to be more negative. Artists with schizophrenia tend to produce interesting degrees of abstraction which seems to be "accidental" as opposed to deliberate. Interesting but sad of course. https://www.bryancharnley.info/self-portraits-2/charnley_self_portrait_series_01/ https://www.bryancharnley.info/self-portraits-2/charnley_sel... If one wants to cause mental illness we already know how - isolation
  - balabaster 8y ago
    The problem is that suspending one's ability to think clearly by preventing them the silence to do so can have as great an effect on mental illness as isolation.
onetimemanytime 8y ago
- Google, I hear voices in my head - Don't worry, it's just ads.
DoctorBit 8y ago
I wonder if tin foil can block this :p
- acct1771 8y ago
  Please don't.
dbg31415 8y ago
* Futurama - S01E06 - Didn't you have ads in the 20th century? - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on tv and radio...and in magazines...and movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree."

Imagine the scary future of retargeting. - Doctor, I hear voices in my head - Don't worry, it's just ads

doorbellguy 8y ago

Since this stuff is based on lasers, don't we have to be in LOS for it to work?

gmueckl 8y ago
Yes, but the laser is IR. So what is and is not transparent is different from visible light.

mrhappyunhappy 8y ago

Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.

rolleiflex 8y ago
That’s not Black Mirror, that’s Tuesday. Meet Google Contributor: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-google-not-to-see-them-plus-sites-can-charge-ad-blocker-users/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-go...
- ChucklesNorris 8y ago
  And apps. I hate flashing ads, I always pay the extra to be left alone. But I wonder, how many have fake, extra annoying ads? It's almost like extortion. But as technology progresses, I can see a future where AI and facial recognition and this targeted sound will torment every person, everywhere they go. The more recent Time Machine movie showed a bit of this.
aasasd 8y ago
Henry Kuttner and his wife C.L. Moore described hyper-aggressive physical ads and ad-blockers in the short story “Year Day,” published in '53. Notably, the anthology that first included the story is named “Ahead of Time.”

bryanrasmussen 8y ago

I wonder if you could, with the right combination of technologies, induce schizophrenia in a subject. Of course since I am in Europe my wondering will not be turned into a DARPA grant.

ddorian43 8y ago
Schizophrenia has multiple symptoms. Currently there's only "hearing voices".
- bryanrasmussen 8y ago
  hence the phrase: right combination of technologies.
  - ddorian43 8y ago
    Missed that, sorry. Maybe with a psychotic pill (like there's atypical antipsychotics)
Nasrudith 8y ago
More fake than induce without the disordered thinking that comes along with it. Normal people can hallucinate under stress to some degree and it can be shockingly subtle and non-disruptive. Like thinking their downstairs neighbor is being noisy but it turns out they were away on vacation. Interestingly the tone of hallucinations is very culturally shaped - western ones tend to be more negative. Artists with schizophrenia tend to produce interesting degrees of abstraction which seems to be "accidental" as opposed to deliberate. Interesting but sad of course. https://www.bryancharnley.info/self-portraits-2/charnley_self_portrait_series_01/ https://www.bryancharnley.info/self-portraits-2/charnley_sel... If one wants to cause mental illness we already know how - isolation
- balabaster 8y ago
  The problem is that suspending one's ability to think clearly by preventing them the silence to do so can have as great an effect on mental illness as isolation.

onetimemanytime 8y ago

- Google, I hear voices in my head - Don't worry, it's just ads.

DoctorBit 8y ago

I wonder if tin foil can block this :p

acct1771 8y ago
Please don't.

dbg31415 8y ago

* Futurama - S01E06 - Didn't you have ads in the 20th century? - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" Fry: "Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on tv and radio...and in magazines...and movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree."