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Something I occasionally worry about: When/if mind reading does become possible, thought privacy will be gone, and humanity enters a brand new era of surveilla

Something I occasionally worry about: When/if mind reading does become possible, thought privacy will be gone, and humanity enters a brand new era of surveillance.

necovek 4y ago
We can finally put those tinfoil hats to good use, though.
antegamisou 4y ago
In my slightly uneducated opinion, this will only be possible once there’s solid understanding of how the human brain works, which if you think about it (ha!) has much lot more exciting implications apart from mind reading, it could even be a step closer to or the resolution to AGI. Besides, for a large part of the 8 billions I would suppose Google search history about personal struggles is pretty damn close to mind reading.
EarthLaunch 4y ago
I read an epic space opera [0] on Wattpad where the baddies are like this. > What if a thought could get you cancelled? What if a thought could get you killed? What if everyone could peer inside your mind and judge you? > Welcome to the galactic Torth Empire. Are you a thought leader? Or are you a slave? 0: https://www.wattpad.com/312043845-majority-sff-ooorahs-1-prologue-the-lion-within https://www.wattpad.com/312043845-majority-sff-ooorahs-1-pro...
Tepix 4y ago
Torture is possible yet here we are.
- mdp2021 4y ago
  ...In a world in which trends are ghastly, also in the territories most advanced and old cultures. I witnessed some new latest attacks to Civilization and Dignity only in the last 24 hours (and they were also about intrusion). About torture: do check these pages: -- https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/where-does-torture-happen-around-the-world https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/where-does-torture-h... ¹ -- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/06/torture-around-the-world/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/06/torture-aroun... > 141 – the number of countries in which Amnesty has reported on torture or other ill-treatment in the past five years. In some countries it’s a rarity, in others it’s widespread We hope that with «here we are» you did not mean "you personally do not see it in the street". -- ¹In which you will by the way immediately notice on the maps that India, 1.4 Bil ppl (current top populated country or reaching it), has not signed the Convention against Torture. In local legislation, it is punished as violence but «the offense attracts no particular relevance if the crime is committed by a police officer» (see http://www.humanrights.asia/tortures/torture-in-india/ http://www.humanrights.asia/tortures/torture-in-india/ ). Recent examples: 2020, Covid lockdowns: > By now, everyone has heard of the tragic deaths of P. Jayaraj and J. Benicks , a father-son duo in a small town in Thoothukudi. Jayaraj, 58, was arrested by the police following an altercation with them on keeping his son’s mobile phone shop open in violation of lockdown rules. After Benicks was also taken into custody, the two were mercilessly thrashed to death. // Being found guilty of the ‘offence’ of keeping a shop open during the lockdown [...] > The Tamil Nadu Police has acquired notoriety over the decades for employing torturous methods for law enforcement. During my tenure as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, several cases in this regard were brought to the court. But this issue is not restricted to Tamil Nadu alone. Torture is, in fact, an integral part of police culture all over the country. Indeed, it would not be amiss to argue that this culture in India today is reminiscent of the brutality of the colonial police forces that we are so keen to forget [...] The data on torture show that it is not only an integral part of India’s policing culture; in some investigations (such as terror cases), it is treated as the centrepiece From https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-torture-culture-needs-to-end-now/article31973431.ece https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-torture-culture...

Something I occasionally worry about: When/if mind reading does become possible, thought privacy will be gone, and humanity enters a brand new era of surveillance.

necovek 4y ago

We can finally put those tinfoil hats to good use, though.

antegamisou 4y ago

In my slightly uneducated opinion, this will only be possible once there’s solid understanding of how the human brain works, which if you think about it (ha!) has much lot more exciting implications apart from mind reading, it could even be a step closer to or the resolution to AGI. Besides, for a large part of the 8 billions I would suppose Google search history about personal struggles is pretty damn close to mind reading.

EarthLaunch 4y ago

I read an epic space opera [0] on Wattpad where the baddies are like this. > What if a thought could get you cancelled? What if a thought could get you killed? What if everyone could peer inside your mind and judge you? > Welcome to the galactic Torth Empire. Are you a thought leader? Or are you a slave? 0: https://www.wattpad.com/312043845-majority-sff-ooorahs-1-prologue-the-lion-within https://www.wattpad.com/312043845-majority-sff-ooorahs-1-pro...

Tepix 4y ago

Torture is possible yet here we are.

mdp2021 4y ago
...In a world in which trends are ghastly, also in the territories most advanced and old cultures. I witnessed some new latest attacks to Civilization and Dignity only in the last 24 hours (and they were also about intrusion). About torture: do check these pages: -- https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/where-does-torture-happen-around-the-world https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/where-does-torture-h... ¹ -- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/06/torture-around-the-world/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/06/torture-aroun... > 141 – the number of countries in which Amnesty has reported on torture or other ill-treatment in the past five years. In some countries it’s a rarity, in others it’s widespread We hope that with «here we are» you did not mean "you personally do not see it in the street". -- ¹In which you will by the way immediately notice on the maps that India, 1.4 Bil ppl (current top populated country or reaching it), has not signed the Convention against Torture. In local legislation, it is punished as violence but «the offense attracts no particular relevance if the crime is committed by a police officer» (see http://www.humanrights.asia/tortures/torture-in-india/ http://www.humanrights.asia/tortures/torture-in-india/ ). Recent examples: 2020, Covid lockdowns: > By now, everyone has heard of the tragic deaths of P. Jayaraj and J. Benicks , a father-son duo in a small town in Thoothukudi. Jayaraj, 58, was arrested by the police following an altercation with them on keeping his son’s mobile phone shop open in violation of lockdown rules. After Benicks was also taken into custody, the two were mercilessly thrashed to death. // Being found guilty of the ‘offence’ of keeping a shop open during the lockdown [...] > The Tamil Nadu Police has acquired notoriety over the decades for employing torturous methods for law enforcement. During my tenure as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, several cases in this regard were brought to the court. But this issue is not restricted to Tamil Nadu alone. Torture is, in fact, an integral part of police culture all over the country. Indeed, it would not be amiss to argue that this culture in India today is reminiscent of the brutality of the colonial police forces that we are so keen to forget [...] The data on torture show that it is not only an integral part of India’s policing culture; in some investigations (such as terror cases), it is treated as the centrepiece From https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-torture-culture-needs-to-end-now/article31973431.ece https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-torture-culture...