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Given the 50% divorce rates, we don't seem to be able to handle our most intimate relationships right now. Being able to access people's naked thoughts sounds l
by prewett 2y ago
Given the 50% divorce rates, we don't seem to be able to handle our most intimate relationships right now. Being able to access people's naked thoughts sounds like a disaster. Both the perceiver and the thinker are going to need to be pretty saintly for this to be a positive experience. The relatively restrained Babylon 5 scenario seems to be on the pretty good side, and that seemed pretty dark.
- wsintra2022 2y agoMaybe the rate is 50% precisely because of ESP/etc People can’t turn the other persons disappointed thoughts off so they argue.
- petercooper 2y agoBeing able to access people's naked thoughts sounds like a disaster. That's the part of it I can't quite get a grip on. If we end up with systems that perform "telepathy", what do they actually pick up? The active part of the mind that filters and decides (the "ego" if you will) or all the random noise and nonsense that's in there but not really willed or deliberate? If all the random thoughts and impulses, critical voices, and what not were tapped into, a lot of people would be in huge trouble quickly, and not necessarily of their own volition.