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You are the one thinking of evil uses, not them

by iancmceachern 2y ago

Minor49er 2y ago
Historians, skeptics, and sci-fi authors must all be evil-minded megalomaniacs
- colonelpopcorn 2y ago
  I can't think of a historian, skeptic, or sci-fi author who's had a level of power enough to disprove your statement.
  - knome 2y ago
    There's always L Ron Hubbard, but I'll assume he's a one off aberration, as very few sci-fi authors veered off into founding infamously belligerent religious cults. That said, the idea that people in power wouldn't think of ways to abuse pretty much any technology and that considering such things is some personal fault of @doublerabbit is quite the silly accusation for @iancmceachern to have made.
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    - iancmceachern 2y ago
      Hubbard is an example that proves the point, not a good dude. I wasn't comparing "people in power" to the parent commenter. I was comparing the study authors to the parent commenter. My point was, more globally, should we halt scientific progress because things could be used with bad intent to do bad? Where, and how, do we draw the line?
  - Minor49er 2y ago
    What does level of power have to do with imagining possibilities?
doodlebugging 2y ago
Add me to that list of people who immediately thought of evil uses for this material. It is a perfect material to enable mental torture. Years ago when I was a kid I had a newspaper route. From about 3 am to 5:30-6:00 am each morning I rolled newspapers and then walked or ran the route through my assigned neighborhood throwing those rolled newspapers wherever the customers had requested them to be in the morning. One of the worst possible things that you could encounter along the route were spider webs. Many of these homes had large trees, hedges, etc that grew along sidewalks and spiders are experts at bridging wide gaps with thin tendrils of sticky web. I'm sure their workday started as soon as they detected a break in the web and didn't end until they ran out of food or mated and died. They were busy. I learned to travel the worst parts of the route with a newspaper held vertically at arm's length in front of my face so that I minimized the chance that I would walk face-first into a web and trap the spider on the wrong side of the web. That had happened too many times and it was always disconcerting to feel the web clinging to your face while something alive is struggling to escape from underneath it right beside your nostril. That's why with the first mention of the properties and diameter of this material the very first thought I had was an unpleasant memory of a hungry spider, frantically trying to escape his predicament and how this material would be most effective as a torture device used to give people the sensation that something is on their skin when in fact there is nothing there. It would also be a way to tickle someone without ever touching them or to induce a feeling that things are crawling on them. I personally can see the utility in this sensor string for the use cases noted in the article but I can also the very real potential for abuse.
- pizzaknife 2y ago
  this is what im here for. hell yeah.
  - doodlebugging 2y ago
    Glad I could help. I had to quit thinking about this article since I had too many product ideas or potential applications popping into my mind. Some were potentially useful.

You are the one thinking of evil uses, not them

Minor49er 2y ago

Historians, skeptics, and sci-fi authors must all be evil-minded megalomaniacs

colonelpopcorn 2y ago
I can't think of a historian, skeptic, or sci-fi author who's had a level of power enough to disprove your statement.
- knome 2y ago
  There's always L Ron Hubbard, but I'll assume he's a one off aberration, as very few sci-fi authors veered off into founding infamously belligerent religious cults. That said, the idea that people in power wouldn't think of ways to abuse pretty much any technology and that considering such things is some personal fault of @doublerabbit is quite the silly accusation for @iancmceachern to have made.
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  - iancmceachern 2y ago
    Hubbard is an example that proves the point, not a good dude. I wasn't comparing "people in power" to the parent commenter. I was comparing the study authors to the parent commenter. My point was, more globally, should we halt scientific progress because things could be used with bad intent to do bad? Where, and how, do we draw the line?
- Minor49er 2y ago
  What does level of power have to do with imagining possibilities?

doodlebugging 2y ago

Add me to that list of people who immediately thought of evil uses for this material. It is a perfect material to enable mental torture. Years ago when I was a kid I had a newspaper route. From about 3 am to 5:30-6:00 am each morning I rolled newspapers and then walked or ran the route through my assigned neighborhood throwing those rolled newspapers wherever the customers had requested them to be in the morning. One of the worst possible things that you could encounter along the route were spider webs. Many of these homes had large trees, hedges, etc that grew along sidewalks and spiders are experts at bridging wide gaps with thin tendrils of sticky web. I'm sure their workday started as soon as they detected a break in the web and didn't end until they ran out of food or mated and died. They were busy. I learned to travel the worst parts of the route with a newspaper held vertically at arm's length in front of my face so that I minimized the chance that I would walk face-first into a web and trap the spider on the wrong side of the web. That had happened too many times and it was always disconcerting to feel the web clinging to your face while something alive is struggling to escape from underneath it right beside your nostril. That's why with the first mention of the properties and diameter of this material the very first thought I had was an unpleasant memory of a hungry spider, frantically trying to escape his predicament and how this material would be most effective as a torture device used to give people the sensation that something is on their skin when in fact there is nothing there. It would also be a way to tickle someone without ever touching them or to induce a feeling that things are crawling on them. I personally can see the utility in this sensor string for the use cases noted in the article but I can also the very real potential for abuse.

pizzaknife 2y ago
this is what im here for. hell yeah.
- doodlebugging 2y ago
  Glad I could help. I had to quit thinking about this article since I had too many product ideas or potential applications popping into my mind. Some were potentially useful.