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> (Don't think this nurse is hot! Don't think this nurse is hot! Holy shit she's hot.) > (You can do this) > (OMG, is it on already?) > (You can do this) >
by savant_penguin 5y ago
> (Don't think this nurse is hot! Don't think this nurse is hot! Holy shit she's hot.)
> (You can do this)
> (OMG, is it on already?)
> (You can do this)
> (What a nice bottom)
> (Don't think bottom you idiot)
> (She's entering the room, think something else, now, fast, bunny bunny)
> (Bunny)
> (Bunny)
> (Bunny, you got this)
- LadyCailin 5y agoI was just thinking about how, once this technology is perfected, at how easy it will be to interrogate high value prisoners. Just pop one of these in their head, and tell them not to think about the top secret or incriminating stuff.
- tester34 5y agoremember that it may be used against you once regime changes
- david-cako 5y agoDon't think about top secret or incriminating stuff.
- elliekelly 5y agoThere are some people who, it seems, can “lie” to themselves. They’re so convinced of their own lies they end up truly believing it. Can you imagine a world where people train themselves to be delusional for the purpose of avoiding self-incrimination during this kind of “brain” interrogation?
- alok-g 5y ago... till I guess a deep fake thoughts arrive. ;-)
- hwers 5y agoAdversarial thoughts that get misclassified into something safe.
- T-A 5y agoCheck out the interrogation scene in "Ghost Fleet" (2015). It's excerpted here if you don't want to read the whole book: https://gizmodo.com/how-ghost-fleet-nails-the-perfect-vision-of-world-war-i-1713881852 https://gizmodo.com/how-ghost-fleet-nails-the-perfect-vision...
- jerf 5y agoI'm not going to pay for the article, but note there's a big difference between sticking this device on a guy and him having to learn how to use it deliberately, versus sticking something on your head and reading your internal monologue. This is almost certainly something the man had to do with great deliberation and effort, not something that was magically reading his mind. I'm not convinced a device to read your internal monologue from the outside is even possible, or if it is, it may be very, very large. A device that sees you're conducting one, perhaps, but reading out the contents externally? I'm not sure it could gather enough information and training data to ever decode it. (That is, my point is more information theoretic than technological.)
- tigerBL00D 5y agoLOL. I think the system actually interprets you wanting to move your hand as if you're writing, like tracing each letter. It's not listening to your thoughts and transcribing. Actual thoughts are very non linear, I think. Transcribe that and it would be sort of like a Trump speech I guess. Lol
- Waterluvian 5y agoI feel like if we got a perfect transcript of our internal monologue, we’d all be shocked at how much we think but instantly forget.
- mimimi31 5y agoInterestingly there are people like myself who don't have an inner monologue (some people supposedly even have a constant dialogue with themselves) at all. The only time I experience something like an inner voice is when reading. My normal thoughts are more abstract I guess, I'm just sort of aware of what I want to do, how I feel etc. It's hard to describe.
- kungito 5y agoCould people without inner monologue be anxious? How would that kind of overthinking work?
- desmosxxx 5y agoYou overthink things just without words. Anticipation itself can cause anxiety.
- javajosh 5y agoIt sounds peaceful. Do you experience it that way?
- agency 5y agoI’m curious about this too. I definitely experience my endless inner monologue as “compulsive thinking.” Even when I have nothing interesting to think about my mind keeps chattering on endlessly and I find my thoughts in that state tend to be more anxious in nature.
- krageon 5y agoIn my experience, it's not significantly more peaceful than how other people experience life: I can still ruminate, it just doesn't involve an internal monologue or dialogue.
- santialbo 5y agothis could be a dialog from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Walking_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Walking_(film)
- sovietmudkipz 5y agoI linked a clip from this movie to OP before I saw your reference. Great minds think alike!
- melling 5y ago“ translates his imagined handwriting into actual text.” Not sure why people love to skip any interesting conversation and immediately run into the weeds. Imagine if we worked as hard at solving the actual problem rather than discussing all the things that could go wrong.
- etrautmann 5y agoGood point, and we are! BCI is a rapidly growing field with plenty of academic and now industry groups working on all aspects of implantable devices, decode algorithms, etc.
- etrautmann 5y agoThis is a decode of attempted handwriting, so it’s unlikely to have a leak of subconscious like this
- emsy 5y agoPeak HN comment :D
- samstave 5y agoSooooo.... A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I was dating an insanely hot girl... When she asked me to go get an STD test prior to us doing anything... I was 18 - and it was all good... So I go to the clinic and am awaiting to see what happens at said test... This ISANELY hot nurse comes in and tells me about the procedure and such and then leaves me in the room to disrobe... I sit there literally goin g through such thoughts in my mind "DONT GET HARD DONT GET HARD" etc... So I spend what feels like an eternitiy trying different thought methods to keep me distracted away from that amazingly beautiful nurse... Then the door opens. And in steps this troll of a person to do the actual procedure.... dealing with if I am flaccid is no longer a problem. A few years later my DAD told me about Whitehouse.com being a porn website... I check it out (this was lit. like 1999 or so) I find a nice video and the girl in the video was my super hot girlfriend who asked me for the STD test... and thats when I knew why. (BTW I'm now old and still flaccid.)
- sovietmudkipz 5y agoRelevant scene from a sci fi movie called “Chaos Walking” https://youtu.be/Od-0XFHlcto https://youtu.be/Od-0XFHlcto
- shp0ngle 5y agoThat’s not how this worked though. The guy focused on individual letters and imagined himself writing them.
- frebord 5y agoLmao some of the responses to this... God ppl can you like enjoy life a little bit maybe
- ugh123 5y agocertainly needs some kind of 'Confirm?' handling, however that would work..
- _fat_santa 5y agoImagine being in a meeting with your bosses and the "confirm" has a bug. > "Will this idiot please shut up and end the meeting" Everyone looks at you > "Shit"
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