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Their family and descendants, to begin with. And, when the tech advances and we can start to understand the brain better and start to get information from it r
by bayindirh 3y ago
Their family and descendants, to begin with.
And, when the tech advances and we can start to understand the brain better and start to get information from it regardless of its state, Its owner will care.
Ask the same question about AI training. "We're just scraping what's available on the internet, who cares?"
This is an extremely dangerous stance.
- nly 3y agoLegally in some jurisdictions all corpses belong to the state.
- D13Fd 3y ago> And, when the tech advances and we can start to understand the brain better and start to get information from it regardless of its state, Its owner will care. That’s never happening. But if it did—-mind reading of hundred year old dead brains—-what an incredible source of historical information they would have.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agomy initial reaction too, but I guess what they actually meant is that learning from the dead brains will be one of the factors that allow us to develop the functionality of reading the minds of the living.
- bayindirh 3y agoYes, it's a future looking comment. We should take lessons from today and prevent future problems around it.
- bonoboTP 3y agoList concrete dangers.
- thfuran 3y agoWhat?
- burkaman 3y agoI know you don't care, but making people feel bad on purpose is bad.
- wang_li 3y agoWe have no way to control how someone feels. As such we have no obligation to change how we act because someone says it will make them feel bad.
- memefrog 3y agoThey aren't making people feel bad on purpose. Their purpose is to study the brains. It happens that to do that, a side effect is someone gets hurt feelings.
- LatteLazy 3y agoWhy do you think the Smithsonian is doing this to make people feel bad? !
- burkaman 3y agoI don't think making people feel bad was the primary purpose, but I do think the people who collected these brains knew the families of the dead wouldn't like it, and did it anyway because they didn't care. That's what I mean by "on purpose". I'm also referring to the people who did this 100 years ago. I don't have much of a problem with the Smithsonian of today based on the information in the article.
- themgt 3y agoAnd, when the tech advances and we can start to understand the brain better and start to get information from it regardless of its state, Its owner will care. So you're saying there's a chance it's not too late to ask for their consent?
- bayindirh 3y agoNo, I mean, it's not too early to ask for consent before they die. We should start doing it.