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I hope someone buys the patent off of them and holds it idle.
by markbao 18y ago
I hope someone buys the patent off of them and holds it idle.
- randallsquared 18y agoCare to explain why you don't want people having control over their memories?
- ars 18y agoBecause maybe the word "their" will be replaced with "other peoples"? You might think "such a person won't care about patents", but I can think of many nightmare scenarios, which a common criminal will be able to do if such a thing were possible. It's bad enough with the drugs that already exist.
- randallsquared 18y agoWell, that's how technology works. It's a rare device or procedure which can't be used as part of some nefarious plan, but that's no reason to ban or suppress the devices or procedures.
- jwilliams 18y agoIndeed- I guess Alfred Nobel and dynamite is the classic example of this.
- yters 18y agoAre you sure the really bad stuff isn't banned, or covered up? Saying no security through obscurity does have its limits.
- randallsquared 18y agoObviously I can't be sure, but I think the level of success had by nonproliferation of nuclear technologies is indicative of what we could expect from that, and I don't see any strong evidence of it.