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This sounds nightmarish. Maybe we build a human centipede if we can get the VC funding next?
by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
This sounds nightmarish. Maybe we build a human centipede if we can get the VC funding next?
- noosphr 5mo agoI would have been quite happy to use my own brain as the computational substrate and I had more than a few other people keen to be the input and output parts of the system. It's rather unfortunate that in the West it is impossible to get elective brain surgery. The countries that will do it have at best a spotty record. I talked to someone who had it done in Brazil and their electrodes became dislodged after a few months. There is nothing new or horrifying about self experimentation. Newton for one did it in conditions that were far more dangerous: https://psmag.com/social-justice/newtons-needle-scientific-self-experimentation-86583/ https://psmag.com/social-justice/newtons-needle-scientific-s...
- virgildotcodes 5mo agoI'm totally fine with consensual human experimentation that somehow threads the needle around exploitation of the poor - just not sure how we do the latter part short of requiring experimentees to pass a minimum net-worth threshold?
- hgoel 5mo agoI think the closest would be: if anyone involved ever complains to authorities at all, everyone involved gets in trouble. If no one ever complains, no trouble. Everyone involved is forever at the mercy of everyone else involved.
- idiotsecant 5mo agoOr...at the mercy of a scary man with a big wrench. Every single post you've put in this thread is a volatile mix of idealistic, naive, and sociopathic. So, obviously you'll be a tech CEO in 10 years.
- hgoel 5mo ago??? This is the only post I made in this thread?
- Nevermark 5mo agoI see perverse incentives to ablate complaint origination to expression pathways, or complaint system dependencies. Or not so perverse, as this makes running these ventures much safer. Safety first!
- nkrisc 5mo agoCompetitor will pay a former customer to complain.
- noworriesnate 5mo agoComplaining to the authorities needs to come with a cost, otherwise people who don’t believe in the research or are looking for a payday will join just to complain
- hgoel 5mo agoI consider that a feature in this idea, you have to believe in whatever you want to human experimentation for, enough to select who you include very carefully, and ultimately still take that risk.
- redrecpeng 5mo agoMake sure subjects actually pay, instead of getting paid for being a subject?
- popcorncowboy 5mo agoOr a Torment Nexus!!
- peddling-brink 5mo agoGreat idea, intense pain does provide a stronger response in the neuronal substrate. The prisoners, or uhh, “research subjects”, won’t mind. It’s for science. /s
- red-iron-pine 5mo agoman its shocking how every day we keep spiraling to that